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Perry Miller

American historian (1905-1963) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 58

Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller was an American intellectual historian and a co-founder of the field of American Studies. Miller specialized in the history of early America and took an active role in a revisionist view of the colonial Puritan theocracy that was cultivated at Harvard University beginning in the 1920s.

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Awards

Pulitzer Prize for History1966
Guggenheim Fellowship1936

About this person

Heavy drinking led to his premature death at the age of 58.

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1905 to 1963 · aged 58