Perry Miller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Perry Miller

American historian

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1905

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 09-Dec-1963

Profession: historian, university teacher, literary critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller (February 25, 1905 – December 9, 1963) was an American intellectual historian and professor 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 beginning in the 1920s.
Heavy drinking led to a premature death age fifty-eight.
"Perry Miller was a great historian of Puritanism but the dark conflicts of the Puritan mind eroded his own mental stability."