John Chester Miller

John Chester Miller (1907-1991)[1] was a US historian who wrote of the American Revolution and its prominent figures. His books were well received.[2]

Born in Santa Barbara, California, he studied at College of Puget Sound for a year before transferring to Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1930. Encouraged by Samuel Eliot Morison to change his postgraduate focus to history, he received master's and doctoral degrees in that field during the 1930s.[1]

He taught at Bryn Mawr College and at Stanford University.[1]

Bibliography

  • Sam Adams, Pioneer in Propaganda. Stanford University Press, 1936. ISBN 9780804700245.
  • Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts. Little, Brown, 1951. ISBN 978-0316572330.
  • Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox. Harper, 1959.
  • Origins of the American Revolution: With a New Introd, and a Bibliography. Stanford University Press, 1959. ISBN 9780804705936.
  • The Federalist Era 1789-1801. Harper and Brothers, 1960. ISBN 978-1577660316.
  • The First Frontier: Life in Colonial America. Delacorte Press, 1966.
  • The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. Published with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, University Press of Virginia, 1991. ISBN 9780813913650.

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