Merrill D. Peterson
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Merrill D. Peterson (born Manhattan, Kansas) is Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of Virginia and the editor of the prestigious Library of America edition of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. His books include Lincoln in American Memory, John Brown: The Legend Revisited, and most recently Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After (Univ. of Virginia Press).
Starving Armenians explores the American response to the planned extermination and dispersion of the Armenian people during World War I, from the initial reports to President Woodrow Wilson from his ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Henry Morgenthau Sr., down to the ongoing campaign to convince the U.S. government to recognize the Genocide.
Part of a generation who were admonished as children to "remember the starving Armenians," Peterson went to Armenia in 1997 as a Peace Corps volunteer and became fascinated by the country’s troubled history.
