An American Martyr in Persia
The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
The forgotten American who died fighting for Iranian democracy in 1909, and remains a hero there while his own country never learned his name.
The story of Howard Baskerville, a young American missionary teacher from Nebraska who arrived in Tabriz in 1907 and was killed two years later fighting alongside Iranian constitutionalists against the Shah’s forces. Forgotten in his own country, he remains a national hero in Iran. Aslan uses the short life to open up the Constitutional Revolution and the long, tangled history between the two nations, a history usually told from much later and much colder starting points.
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