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About John M. Merriman
- John Mustard Merriman (born 1946) is a Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University.
- He is the author of many books including his most well known A History of Modern Europe since the Renaissance (1996 & 2002), a popular survey text for undergraduate history classes at many American universities and colleges.
- Merriman was born and raised in Oregon where he attended a Jesuit all-boys high-school, although he does not consider himself religious.
- His favorite music is The Rolling Stones, "[I’ve] never written a thing without a record on." Merriman formed many of his current political views during the volatile Vietnam years; he still describes himself as "virulently anti-establishment".
- His recent books include The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in the Fin-De-Siecle Paris Ignited The Age of Modern Terror (2009) about the French Anarchist Emile Henry (1872-1894), Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune (2014) focusing on the Paris Commune of 1871, particularly on "The Bloody Week"; and Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits: The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Epoque Paris (2017) a story of the Bonnot Gang.
- He received his Ph.D.
- and B.A.
- at the University of Michigan.
- Merriman teaches French and Modern European history and first began teaching at Yale in the mid-1970s where he still resides.
- He was the seventh master of Branford College (1983-1991).
- He lives part of each year with his family in France.
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