John Chester Miller Explained

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. .
• Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts. Little, Brown, 1951. .
• Alexander Hamilton: Portrait in Paradox. Harper, 1959.
• Origins of the American Revolution: With a New Introd, and a Bibliography. Stanford University Press, 1959. .
• The Federalist Era 1789-1801. Harper and Brothers, 1960. .
• 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. .

Reviews

• The Wolf by the Ears. Indiana Museum of History. https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27790342?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102926029871.
• Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20088357?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102928038631
• The Federalist Era. The American Historical Review. https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1847018?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102928038631

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stanford University. MEMORIAL RESOLUTION JOHN CHESTER MILLER. 2013-11-12. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131112194625/http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/MillerJC.pdf. 2013-11-12.
2. Web site: New York Times. John C. Miller, 83; Writer and Professor Of American History. 2013-11-12.