Author of `Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide,
1915-1930 and After’ died
27.09.2009 19:56 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Merrill D. Peterson, the noted Jeffersonian scholar
and author of `Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide,
1915-1930 and After,’ died in Charlottesville. He was 88.

Peterson, who was a University of Virginia history professor, former
chairman of the History Department and dean of the faculty of the
College of Arts & Sciences, wrote or edited 37 books.

At the age of 76, he joined the Peace Corps. The time he spent in
Armenia resulted in a book, `Starving Armenians: America and the
Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After.’, Asbarez.com reported.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress