Randall M Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randall M Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randall M |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Joseph's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Seeing Slavery in Pennsylvania
The subject of slavery in Pennsylvania, long ignored in historical study, has gained currency in recent years among academic and public historians, historic site and museum managers, and students and teachers in K–12 through college, and it has led to introspection by all manner of institutions about the need to investigate their historical connections to slavery and their obligations to address that history. The study of slavery in Pennsylvania …
Raising Philadelphia
Justin McHenry has written a very readable and revealing book about colonial Philadelphia’s “golden age” when it emerged as the largest, most prosperous, and predominant city in British North America in terms of science, education, medicine, invention, finance, commerce, the arts, and more. Relying almost wholly on secondary works, McHenry interweaves biographical treatments of prominent persons—mostly men and two women—to show a vibrant city tha…
Undoing Slavery
In Undoing Slavery, historian Kathleen M. Brown offers a major revision of the prevailing emphasis in the literature on abolition by insisting that rather than being focused on human rights as an abstract principle, as many scholars have rendered them, abolitionists “gave human rights a pragmatic and domestic inflection” (p. 4) by emphasizing that the violation of the human body was the fundamental denial of the humanity of the enslaved, and thus…
The Northern Home Front during the Civil War
Rebels in the Making
Throughout his distinguished career, William L. Barney has taught us much about the context, character, and consequence of secession, a process, he has shown, that by the late 1850s seemed almost inexorable but never inevitable. In this tour de force, Barney brings together his vast knowledge of the dynamics and directions of secession and fresh, deep research into the public and private writings of many and diverse southerners to reveal the comp…
James G. Mendez. A Great Sacrifice
In this deeply researched and revealing book, James G. Mendez seeks to recover the experience of northern black soldiers and their families during the Civil War era in order to discover the ways they engaged the governments of their day both to recognize and respect their service and sacrifice during the war and to count the costs northern blacks paid out in impoverished families, wartime casualties, and unfulfilled promises. To do so, Mendez min…
American Founders
Christina Proenza-Coles is a brave, ambitious historian, for she sets out to recast “American” history by writing “a history of all Americans because our heritage is fundamentally entwined, African and European, slave and free, Anglo and Latin” (p. xi). By her reckoning, multiculturalism “is the demographic reality of the founding and development of America” and the principal agent of social, cultural, economic, and political identity and interes…
The Weeping Time
Anne C. Bailey opens her fascinating but frustrating book with an account of the March 2–3, 1859, auction of 436 men, women, and children from the Pierce M. Butler rice and sea-island cotton plantations in Georgia. Held at a racetrack outside Savannah, the auction was the largest in American history. It drew buyers from across the South and also an abolitionist in mufti, who recorded conversations, prices, and more for a pamphlet he published abo…
Lincoln and the Military
Abolitionizing Missouri
Kristen Layne Anderson's study looks closely at the ways German immigrants in St. Louis moved from a relative ignorance of and indifference to issues of slavery and abolition to positions of antislavery by the late antebellum period, hardy Unionism and support for emancipation during and because of the Civil War, and civil rights (especially voting rights) for blacks during Reconstruction. In doing so, Anderson offers one of the few sustained inq…
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity
The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia, by Charles F. Irons, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2008, xi+366 pp., ISB
Invisible Southerners
Upon the Altar of the Nation
Harry S. Stout wants a moral accounting for the Civil War. He uses just war theory to ask at what price was victory if it cost the nation its very soul. To find out, he examines the thinking and practice of civilian and military leaders on both sides of the conflict, measuring their moral compass by their willingness to respect the just war principles of proportionality and discrimination as the war ground on and the casualties mounted. By his re…
The Last Generation
Lincoln
The contributing editors encourage readers to suggest representations of history in American public culture that might be reviewed. In addition to continuing coverage of museum exhibitions, they are interested in covering living history projects, historical pageants and reenactments, memorials, historic preservation projects, and virtual museums. Please contact: Kym S. Rice Museum Studies Program George Washington University 2035 F St., NW Washin…
Lynching in America
Research Article| October 01 2005 LYNCHING IN AMERICA: SOME CONTEXT AND A FEW COMMENTS Randall M. Miller Randall M. Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (2005) 72 (3): 275–291. https://doi.org/10.2307/27778679 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Randall M. Miller; LYNCHING IN AMERICA: SOME CONTEXT AND A FEW COMMENTS. Pennsylva…
Water Will Set You Free
Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front
Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences, Postwar Adjustments explores the North's Civil War in ways that brings fresh perspectives to our knowledge of the way soldiers and civilians interacted in the Civil War North. Northerners rarely confronted the hardships their southern counterparts faced, but they still found the war a challenging event that to varying degrees would re-shape and transform their old comfortable assump…
Civil War St. Louis
Civil War St. Louis roiled at the vortex of wartime politics, strategy, and social change. As the “gateway” to the West and a vital link to southern markets, the city was crucial to Union efforts to keep open river and railroad traffic that reached from the Mississippi Valley to Pennsylvania and to invade the Confederacy. The city also held a large cache of arms and ammunition at the federal arsenal there. But the great inland city of the nation'…
To Faithfully Preserve
“To Faithfully Preserve: History and Lore from Americas National Parks.” National Archives and Records Administration—Mid-Atlantic Region, Robert N. C. Nix Federal Building, 900 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19107 Randall M. Miller Randall M. Miller Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 171–172,…
The Ruling Race
Book Review| April 01 2000 The Ruling Race: A History of American SlaveholdersMistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830–1880 The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders, James Oakes.Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830–1880, Marli F. Weiner. Randall M. Miller Randall M. Miller Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (3): 125–12…
Christianity in Appalachia
Religion has long been a source of identity for many Southerners, and the Appalachian areas in particular have proven to be a virtual fortress protecting faith and culture. Yet, in a region popularly thought to be religiously homogeneous, congregations reflect a wide range of doctrinal differences over such issues as conversion, ministerial leadership, and the authority on which a church bases its core beliefs. Profiling the prominent Christian t…
Religion and the American Civil War
Religion and the American Civil War
Journal Article Religion and the American Civil War. Ed. by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiv, 422 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-19-512128-7. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-19-512129-5.) Get access David B. Chesebrough David B. Chesebrough Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vol…
The making of African‐American Protestantism
Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. SYLVIA R. FREY and BETTY WOOD. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xiv, 285pp. $37.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0–8078–2375–9; 0–8078–4681–3. A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro‐Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763–1840. JON SENSBACH. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. x…
The Fabric of Control
The factory system in one of its earliest forms—the textile mill—made limited strides in the American South during the closing decades of the slave era. While bondsmen were put to work in mills almost from the beginning, the problem of adapting an agricultural work force to the factory system was one that had to be solved simultaneously with the development of the factory system itself. Since then, historians have wondered whether the use of slav…
The Kaleidoscopic Lens
Journal Article The Kaleidoscopic Lens: How Hollywood Views Ethnic Groups. Ed. by Randall M. Miller. (Englewood, N.J.: Ozer, 1980. xiii + 222 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and indexes. Cloth, $13.95; paper, $6.95.) Get access Emma Jones Lapsansky Emma Jones Lapsansky Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 73…
The Censorship Papers
Journal Article The Censorship Papers: Movie Censorship Letters from the Hays Office, 1934 to 1968. By Gerald Gardner. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987. xxiv + 226 pp. $18.95.) Get access Randall M. Miller Randall M. Miller Saint Joseph's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1365–1366, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908740 Published: 01 March 19…
To Seek America
Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Abolitionizing Missouri
Kristen Layne Anderson's study looks closely at the ways German immigrants in St. Louis moved from a relative ignorance of and indifference to issues of slavery and abolition to positions of antislavery by the late antebellum period, hardy Unionism and support for emancipation during and because of the Civil War, and civil rights (especially voting rights) for blacks during Reconstruction. In doing so, Anderson offers one of the few sustained inq…
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
The American Slave
Slavery Time When I Was Chillun Down on Marster's Plantation
The Journals of Thomas Hubbard Hobbs
Journal Article The Journals of Thomas Hubbard Hobbs: A Contemporary Record of an Aristocrat from Athens, Alabama, Written between 1840, When the Diarist was Fourteen Years Old, and 1862, When He Died Serving the Confederate States of America. Ed. by Faye Acton Axford. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1976. x + 272 pp.) Get access Randall M. Miller Randall M. Miller Saint Joseph's College, Philadelphia Search for other works by this auth…
Unwelcome Allies
Immigrants and Religion in Urban America
Journal Article Immigrants and Religion in Urban America. Ed. by Randall M. Miller and Thomas D. Marzik. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977. xxii + 170 pp. Notes and index. $10.00.) Get access Andrew M. Greeley Andrew M. Greeley Center for the Study of American Pluralism Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 4, March 1978, Pages 1133–1134, https://doi.org/1…
Immigrants and Religion in Urban America
Journal Article Immigrants and Religion in Urban America edited by Randall M. Miller and Thomas D. Marzik. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1977, xxii + 170 pp. $10.00 Get access Philip E. Lampe Philip E. Lampe Incarnate Word College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 39, Issue 3, Fall 1978, Page 277, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710455 Published: 01 October 1978
The American Slave
Dear Master
Immigrants and Religion in Urban America
Dear Master
Dear Master is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters--including seven discovered since the book's original appearance--reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke.The letters, dating from 1834 to 1865, fall into…
Dear Master ' Letters of a Slave Family
The Slave Drivers
The Kaleidoscopic Lens
Journal Article The Kaleidoscopic Lens: How Hollywood Views Ethnic Groups. Ed. by Randall M. Miller. (Englewood, N.J.: Ozer, 1980. xiii + 222 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and indexes. Cloth, $13.95; paper, $6.95.) Get access Emma Jones Lapsansky Emma Jones Lapsansky Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages 73…
The Fabric of Control
The factory system in one of its earliest forms—the textile mill—made limited strides in the American South during the closing decades of the slave era. While bondsmen were put to work in mills almost from the beginning, the problem of adapting an agricultural work force to the factory system was one that had to be solved simultaneously with the development of the factory system itself. Since then, historians have wondered whether the use of slav…
The Ethnic Myth
Books reviewed
Natives and Newcomers: The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid‐Nineteenth Century Poughkeepsie. By Clyde and Sally Griffin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. xvi, 291 pp. $18.95. The Chicago Board of Trade 1859–1905: The Dynamics of Self‐Regulation. By Jonathan Lurie. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979. xiv, 234 pp. $12.50. A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in Chicago, 1892–1919. By Steven J. Diner. Chapel Hill: Universit…
A Warm & Zealous Spirit
Perhaps more than anyone else, John Joachim Zubly (1724 - 1781) provided the intellectual and constitutional rationale for Georgia's participation in the American Revolution. The Swiss-born Reformed minister was Georgia's only important political pamphleteer in the era of the American Revolution
The Celluloid South
Journal Article The Celluloid South: Hollywood and the Southern Myth. By Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981. xvii + 212 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Randall M. Miller Randall M. Miller Saint Joseph's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 741–742, https…
The Bonds of Wickedness
Blacks and White TV
Catholics in the Old South
Catholics in the Old South
Catholics in the Old South
Journal Article Catholics in the Old South: Essays on Church and Culture. Ed. by Randall M. Miller and Jon L. Wakelyn. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1983. ix + 260 pp. Chart, tables, notes, and index. $15.95.) Get access Ralph E. Luker Ralph E. Luker Virginia Polytechnic Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 124–125, https://doi.…
The Salzburger Saga
New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America
Bibliography of Religion in the South
Journal Article Bibliography of Religion in the South. By Charles H. Lippy. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1985, xvi + 498 pp. $49.95.) Get access Randall M. Miller Randall M. Miller Saint Joseph's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Pages 1112–1113, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904192 Published: 01 March 1987
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