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Primary Sources, And Their Power: The Greek Genocide In American Naval War Diaries
Savvas Koktzoglou is a retired mechanical engineer, a Greek American from Chicago, Illinois. He is a native of Drama, in Greece’s province of Macedonia, a child of Pontic Greeks from the Black Sea who settled…
Fireships: An Asymmetric Weapon That Helped Liberate Greece
I try not to make parallels to the Ancients when talking about Modern Greece; it is a cliché too worn, a dividend too often presented for payment. And yet, allow me a bit of hypocrisy…
The Greek Orthodox Church In America, A Modern History
In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country’s million-plus Greek…
This Date in History: An 800 Year Apology
May 4, 2001: Pope John Paul II visits Athens and makes apologies for the sins of the Crusader attack on Constantinople in 1204. April 8, 1204, a combined Crusader army, on the way to establish…
A Grand Old Lady
She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, carried allied troops across the Atlantic and around the world, carried immigrants from the Old World to the New World, and after four decades of service, met an uneventful…
Hydra 200 Years ago… in 1820
As this article goes to (digital) press, time travel is still not a possibility, and to recreate the past, even as a historian depending on documents, is still, in part, an act of fiction. The…
Samos at the Edge
There is an island, in the far east of the Aegean, the closest island, in fact, to Asia Minor, where a tiny strait separates the island from the Turkish mainland. Its scenery is beautiful, its…
Oxi Day and the USS Slater that Served the Greek Navy
Today, Oxi Day, we pay homage to the forty years that USS SLATER served the Greek Navy at A/T AETOS. We fly the Greek flag. Oxi Day is celebrated throughout Greece, Cyprus and the Greek…
This Date In History: A Greek Star-spangled Banner
October 23, 2003: Musician, Yanni, performs a keyboard instrumental version of The Star-Spangled Banner before Game 5 of the 2003 World Series at Pro Player Stadium, Florida. Born Yiannis Chryssomallis in 1954 in Kalamata, Greece,…
Odessa: The “Society” Port
My late father always wanted to go to Odessa. A proud Hydriot, every port had a visceral, nostalgic resonance to him. It reminded him of younger days and open horizons, sailing, like his ancestors before…
This Date In History: Greek Fashion Designer James Galanos Is Born In Philly
On September 20, 1924, James Galanos was born in Philadelphia to Greek immigrant parents from Naousa. His mother, Helen Gorgoliatos, and his father, Gregory Galanos, a frustrated artist, ran a restaurant in southern New Jersey.…
This Date In History: The Greek Billionaire’s Club Of 2013
September 16, 2013: Forbes magazine lists 6 Greek-American billionaires, including John Paul DeJoria, John Catsimatidis, Jim Davis, Michael Jaharis, Dean Mitropoulos, and George Argyros. The first issue of Forbes Magazine, an American business magazine, came…
