H. E. Chehabi
Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi is a professor of international relations and history emeritus at Boston University. He is the author of three books, most recently Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (2020); editor or coeditor of twelve books, most recently Political, Social and Cultural History of Iran: Essays in Honour of Ervand Abrahamian (2025); and numerous refereed articles, book chapters, essays, and encyclopedia entries.
Introduction
H. E. Chehabi
I-Writings of Samuel M. Jordan
The Power Plant in Persia (1929)
Address of President Jordan at the laying of the cornerstone of Moore Science Hall (1931)
Letter to his Friends (1934)
Constructive Revolutions in Iran (1935)
The Only Christian College in Iran (1935)
Startling Changes in Iran (1936)
Interview with The Lafayette (n.d.)
II-Writings about Samuel M. Jordan
Climbing to the Top of Persia (1930)
“Mr. Chips” of Teheran”
William N. Wysham
Lafayette in Persia
Excerpt from By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne
E. Alexander Powell
Excerpt from Around the World on a Bicycle
Fred A. Birchmore
Alborz College of Teheran and Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan: Founder and President
Arthur C. Boyce
Dr. Jordan of Tehran: American, Christian, Teacher
Michael Zirinisky
Alborz College of Tehran, Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan and the American Faculty: Twentieth-Century Presbyterian Mission Education and Modernism in Iran
Thomas M. Ricks
III-Reminiscences of Iranians
Jordan’s Way
Shokrollah Naser
Sam Jordan and the Evangelical Ethic in Iran
Yahya Armajani
“I want to study, but I have no money”: Memories of the College, later Alborz High School
Ahmad Dashti (Akbarzadeh)