Merrill Peterson

A University of Virginia history professor, former chairman of the history department, and noted Jeffersonian scholar, Peterson wrote or edited 37 books in his lifetime. He fought in WWII, won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1962, and joined the Peace Corps at the age of 76.

Published in VQR

• Responding to the Holocaust, Winter 1999
• My Six Weeks In the Peace Corps: An Armenian Adventure, Winter 1998
• Dumas Malone: the Completion of A Monument, Winter 1982
• Mr. Jefferson’s “Sovereignty of the Living Generation”, Summer 1976