Dawn-Eve Mertz is an independent journalist, a development editor at Truthlytics, historian, and a nonfiction author. She spent six years in education, primarily as an English teacher, after earning her MAT, and now is building a career as an author and journalist. Her written work is historical, and contemporary nonfiction. Her first published book about the Hungarian Revolution and her grandfather's escape in 1956, "Young Men Go West," is out now.
Education
MAT Secondary English — Western Governors University, 2018
BA Classical Civilization — University of Oregon, 2016
Areas of Expertise
What Was the Red Terror?
The Red Terror was a Soviet campaign to eliminate opponents and potential threats, but the Soviets arrested, deported, and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people as well.
Soviet Show Trials: A Grueling History of Repression
In the Soviet Union, political repression was a tactic to extinguish real and imaginary enemies and to eliminate political opponents.