Neil R. McMillen

Neil R. McMillen is an American historian, and professor emeritus at University of Southern Mississippi.

Life

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

He lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the winter and on Lake Superior in Upper Michigan in the summer.

Awards

• 1990 Bancroft Prize
• 1990 Gustavus Myers Prize
• 1990 McLemore Prize
• 1990 Pulitzer Prize finalist

Works

• "The American Reaction to the Rise of Nazi Germany, March, 1933 - March, 1934" (USM thesis, 1963)
• Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom. Chicago: Rand McNally. 1973. ISBN 978-0-528-82487-6.
• A synopsis of American history. Chicago: Rand McNally College Pub. Co. 1974. ISBN 978-0-929587-74-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help) (7th Edition 1992)
• Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-252-06156-1.
• The Citizens' Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-64. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-252-06441-8. (1st edition 1971)
• Neil R. McMillen, ed. (1997). Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0-87805-928-7.
• Geoffrey Jensen; Andrew Wiest, eds. (2001). "World War II and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement". War in the age of technology: myriad faces of modern armed conflict. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-4251-8.