Kerby Alonzo Miller (born December 30, 1944) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and emeritus professor at

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...

Life

Miller graduated from

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became ...

, and from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, with an MA and PhD in 1976. He is a visiting researcher at

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. He has argued extensively that historian

Richard J. Jensen Richard Joseph Jensen (born October 24, 1941) is an American historian, who was professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, from 1973 to 1996. He has worked on American political, social, military, and economic history as well as ...

's claims about

anti-Irish sentiment Anti-Irish sentiment includes oppression, persecution, discrimination, or hatred of Irish people as an ethnic group or a nation. It can be directed against the island of Ireland in general, or directed against Irish emigrants and their descendan ...

in America were inaccurate. 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.

Awards

* 1986

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

in History finalist * 1986 Theodore Saloutos Award * 1986

Merle Curti Award The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. It is named in honor of Merle Curti Merle Eugene Curti (September 15, 1897 – March ...

from the

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* 2002 Distinguished Lecturer by the

* 2004 James S. Donnelly Prize for ''Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan''

Works

Chapters

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Books

* * * * * ''Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America'' (Washington, DC, 1994), * (reprint 1988 )

References

External links

Kerby Miller Papers
at Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections 1944 births Pomona College alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Missouri faculty Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians from California American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub