Neil R. McMillen explained

Discipline:	Historian
Thesis Title:	The Citizens' Council: A History of Organized Southern White Resistance to the Second Reconstruction
Thesis Year:	1969
Workplaces:	University of Southern Mississippi
Doctoral Advisor:	Dewey W. Grantham
Birth Place:	Michigan, U.S.

Neil R. McMillen (born 1939) is an American historian, and professor emeritus at University of Southern Mississippi.^[1]

Life

He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a BA and MA, and from Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D.^[2] His papers are held at University of Southern Mississippi.^[3]

Awards

• 1990 Bancroft Prize
• 1990 Gustavus Myers Prize
• 1990 McLemore Prize
• 1990 Pulitzer Prize finalist
• 2005 B. L. C. Wailes Award

Works

• "The American Reaction to the Rise of Nazi Germany, March, 1933 - March, 1934" (USM thesis, 1963)
• Book: Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom. registration. Chicago. Rand McNally. 1973. 978-0-528-82487-6 .
• Book: A synopsis of American history. Charles Grier Sellers . Henry Farnham May . Neil R. McMillen . I.R. Dee. 1974. 978-0-929587-74-5. Chicago. Rand McNally College Pub. Co.. registration. (7th Edition 1992)
• Book: Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow . Urbana. University of Illinois Press. 1989. 978-0-252-06156-1 .
• Book: The Citizens' Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-64 . Urbana. University of Illinois Press. 1994. 978-0-252-06441-8 . (1st edition 1971)
• Book: Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South. Neil R. McMillen . Jackson, Miss.. University Press of Mississippi. 1997. 978-0-87805-928-7 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=x0njwe2ZOY0C&q=Neil+R.+McMillen&pg=PT273. World War II and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. War in the age of technology: myriad faces of modern armed conflict. Geoffrey Jensen . Andrew Wiest. NYU Press. 2001. 978-0-8147-4251-8 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Neil R. McMillen . https://web.archive.org/web/20120223070858/http://www.usm.edu/history/mcmillen.php . 2012-02-23 . University of Southern Mississippi.
2. Web site: Ownby . Ted . 2017-07-11 . Neil R. McMillen . 2022-07-27 . Mississippi Encyclopedia . en-US.
3. Web site: McMillen (Neil R.) Professional Papers . 2022-07-27 . University of Southern Mississippi McCain Library and Archives.