Kenneth Pletcher
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Ken Pletcher was Senior Editor, Geography and History for Encyclopædia Britannica. He holds an M.A. in Japanese studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of his master's program, he spent an academic year studying in Kobe, Japan. He also received a B.A. from the same institution in political science, with a minor in Asian studies. He worked at Britannica from 1979 to 2016, when he retired.
He edited The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Explorations that Changed the Modern World and other books for the Britannica Educational Publishing imprint.
Primary Contributions (83)
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, incident on April 13, 1919, in which British troops opened fire on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in a garden called the Jallianwala Bagh (bagh meaning “garden”) in Amritsar in the Punjab region (now in Punjab state) of colonized India, killing several hundred people…
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Mount Everest