Merrill Peterson

Biography

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.

See Work

ESSAYS / Summer 1976

Mr. Jefferson’s “Sovereignty of the Living Generation”

By Merrill Peterson

The Bicentennial of the American Revolution ought to be a time for restoring the dialogue between the spirit of the past and the spirit of the future in our national life. We commemorate our origins because our origins are intertwined with...

Winter 1998

My Six Weeks In the Peace Corps: An Armenian Adventure

By Merrill Peterson
Winter 1999

Responding to the Holocaust

By Merrill Peterson
Winter 1982

Dumas Malone: the Completion of A Monument

By Merrill Peterson