From 15 to 17 March 2023, the National Library of Greece at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation hosted the international conference “Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Toward a Global History.” The conference was organized by the British School at Athens (BSA) in collaboration with the National Library of Greece (NLG).
The administrator of our website, Giorgos Giannikos, participated as a speaker, presenting a paper titled: “The Greek Revolution and the African American Press: The Philhellenic Stance of the Newspaper ‘Freedom’s Journal’.” The talk took place on 15 March 2023 and outlined how the African American newspaper covered the revolutionary events in Greece between 1827 and 1829, as well as how its philhellenic stance was expressed.
