John Merriman

John Merriman (1946-2022) was a Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University and the author of several books, including Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune, The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror, and the classic History of Modern Europe. He was the recipient of Yale’s Byrnes/Sewell Teaching Prize, a French Docteur Honoris Causa, and spoke frequently at universities across the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Australia.