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American historian (born 1944)
Kerby Alonzo Miller (born December 30, 1944)
[1] is an American
historian and emeritus professor at
University of Missouri .
[2] He is known for his works on Irish immigration to and identity in the United States.
Life
Miller graduated from
Pomona College , and from
University of California, Berkeley , with an MA and PhD in 1976.
He is a visiting researcher at
Queen's University Belfast .
[3]
He has argued extensively that historian
Richard J. Jensen 's claims about
anti-Irish sentiment in America were inaccurate.
[4]
Miller collected and transcribed over decades hundreds of letters from Irish immigrants in America. The letters range in date from the late 1600s to the 1950s. He deposited transcripts of these letters at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway to be made available on a searchable database.
[5]
Awards
Works
Chapters
Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia (1990). "Class, Culture, and Immigrant Group Identity in the United States". In Virginia Yans-McLaughlin (ed.).
Immigration reconsidered: history, sociology, and politics . Oxford University Press. p.
96 .
ISBN
978-0-19-505510-8 .
Dermot Keogh; Michael H. Haltzel, eds. (1993). "Revising Revisionism: Comments and Reflections".
Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation . Cambridge University Press. p.
52 .
ISBN
978-0-521-45933-4 .
Charles Fanning, ed. (2000).
" 'Scotch-Irish' Myths and 'Irish' Identities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century America" . New perspectives on the Irish diaspora . SIU Press.
ISBN
978-0-8093-2344-9 .
Kerby A. Miller; Bruce D. Bolling; Liam Kennedy (2003).
"The Famine's Scars: William Murphy's Ulster, and American Odyssey" . In Kevin Kenny (ed.). New directions in Irish-American history . University of Wisconsin Press.
ISBN
978-0-299-18714-9 .
Margaret M. Mulrooney, ed. (2003).
"In the Famine's Shadow: An Irish Immigrant from West Kerry to South Dakota, 1881–1979" . Fleeing the famine: North America and Irish refugees, 1845-1851 . Greenwood Publishing Group.
ISBN
978-0-275-97670-5 .
Books
Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration . Field Day Publications. 2008.
ISBN
978-0-946755-39-4 .
Kerby A. Miller, ed. (2003).
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815 . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-515489-4 .
Kerby A. Miller; Patricia Mulholland Miller (2001). Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America . San Francisco: Chronicle.
ISBN
978-0-8118-2783-6 .
James S. Donnelly; Kerby A. Miller, eds. (1998).
Irish Popular Culture, 1650–1850 . Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
ISBN
978-0-7165-2551-6 .
Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America (Washington, DC, 1994),
ISBN
978-1-880216-25-5
Miller, Kerby A. (1985).
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-505187-2 . (reprint 1988
ISBN
978-0-19-505187-2 )
References
External links
Kerby Miller Papers at Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections
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