In April 1909 , Gibbons personally observed the Turkish attacks on Greeks and Armenians . He wrote a book about the Armenian Genocide entitled '' The Blackest Page in Modern History '' . His wife , Helen , also wrote about their experiences in Tarsus and Adana , and published a book , '' The Red Rugs of Tarsus '' , in 1917 . From 1910 to 1913 , while he was in Turkey , Gibbons also served as the Professor of History and Political Economy at Robert College in Istanbul
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Herbert Adams Gibbons