Concept

Perry Miller

Overview

Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller (February 25, 1905 – December 9, 1963) 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. Heavy drinking led to his premature death at the age of 58.

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Philosophers who discussed Perry Miller

• Susan Sontag
• Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
• Walter J. Ong

Related ideas

• Edward Gibbon
• Great Britain
• Atheism
• Harvard University
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Puritans
• Pulitzer Prize
• Colonial history of the United States
• American Philosophical Society
• The New York Times
• University of Chicago
• World War II
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• The Nation
• World War I
• Intellectual history
• Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
• Chicago
• Princeton, New Jersey

Place in the tradition

Part of Transcendentalism.

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