Neil R. McMillen

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

Neil R. McMillen
Born	1939 (age 84–85) 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. His papers are held at University of Southern Mississippi.

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. ISBN 978-0-929587-74-5. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= 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.