“merrill d peterson”

Historian Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American thought and imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politic... More

During the lifetime of Thomas Jefferson, through its days of vandalism and neglect, and to its final restoration, Monticello, the historic home of Jefferson, has lured thousands of visitors.... More

Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Peterson charts Thomas Jefferson's influence upon American thought and imagination since his death in 1826. Peterson's focus is "not primarily with the truth or fa... More

Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenians, a minority in the Ottoman Empire, died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian Desert. Peterson explores the American response to these atrocities, from initial reports to President Wilson until Arme... More

Peterson brings to life the great events in which the Triumvirate figures so Prominently.Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades pre... More

Peterson gives readers John Brown in his own day, but he also shows how the flaming abolitionist warrior's image--celebrated in art, literature, and journalism--has helped him shed some of his infamy to become a symbol of American idealism and fervor. 14 illustrations.Few figures hold as mythic a pl... More

In this absorbing memoir, Merrill D. Peterson progresses from a young Kansas Republican to a "Left liberal, " reconstructing how the New Republic singularly influenced his intellectual development and academic career during some of the most turbulent years in American history -- the final years of t... More

Progressive Dies is your collective source for improving current designs, or learning how to take advantage of progressive die efficiency and cost reduction. Among the topics covered are: die material selection and properties; developing progression stages; grinding, EDM and wire-cut EDM operations;... More