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

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Neil R. McMillen
Born	1939 (age 82–83) Michigan, U.S.
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Southern Mississippi (BA, MA) Vanderbilt University (PhD)
Thesis	The Citizens' Council: A History of Organized Southern White Resistance to the Second Reconstruction (1969)
Doctoral advisor	Dewey W. Grantham
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	Southern U.S. history U.S. Civil Rights history
Institutions	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.[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)
• Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom. Chicago: Rand McNally. 1973. ISBN 978-0-528-82487-6.
• Charles Grier Sellers, Henry Farnham May, Neil R. McMillen (1974). A synopsis of American history. Chicago: Rand McNally College Pub. Co. I.R. Dee. ISBN 978-0-929587-74-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) (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.

References

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