When World War I ended in 1918, the world had changed. The face of Europe was reshaped, its boundaries altered, and Communism had taken over Russia. Many Americans were there to witness this, among them Merian C. Cooper, an Air Force pilot, Ernest B....

These memoirs of a founder of Middle Eastern studies at U.S. institutions reveal more than the events of a life spent in intimate contact with many peoples of Eurasia. Although mainly concerned with “Greater Iran” (Afghanistan, Iran/Persia and...

James Lyman Merrick was born into a farming family in western Massachusetts in 1803. In his youth, while completing a school project, he developed an enduring love for Persia that became a guiding light for his entire life. As a committed Christian of a...

NOTE: Also available in Kindle format at lower price. 1- Click on "Select Format" 2- Select "eBook Download" 3- Select "AMAZON KINDLE" In 1968, James Goode became a Peace Corps Volunteer assigned to teach English in the...

The diaries, letters and essays are extraordinary and factual eyewitness accounts of Tabriz and Tehran’s social, military and political life in the tumultuous days and years of Iran’s Constitutional Revolution and Tabriz’s ten-month siege....

Arthur Upham Pope and his wife Phyllis Ackerman were pioneers in the study of the arts of Asia, with a paramount dedication to Persian art, history, heritage and culture, and its interrelations. Their efforts led to the establishment in 1925 of the American...

John Haskell Shedd was born on July 9, 1833 in Mt. Gilead, Ohio. He attended Marietta College, Lane Theological Seminary and Andover Theological Seminary. He was assigned as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the city...

This book recounts a remarkable true story of courage and compassion during the Great War, focusing on a group of eighteen American missionaries in Urumia (located in northwestern Iran) who protected and cared for 25,000 Christian refugees—mainly...