Richard L. Miller
AUTHOR

Richard L. Miller

Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
History has been my passion from the time my father took me – an eight-year-old boy thrilled to be camping with his dad - to the Shiloh battlefield. I majored in history at Carleton College and, excited to engage my passion full-time, spent the fall of my senior year researching my honors paper in the British Museum. I can remember the chill that ran down my spine when I first handled an original document signed by King George III. After graduating from Carleton, I entered the doctoral program in history at Princeton University and began my dissertation on the founding of the early county lunatic asylums in England. In the end, I did not become an academic. Instead, I jumped from studying the history of mental hospitals to managing community programs for recently deinstitutionalized psychiatric patients. With that change, I embarked on a satisfying 40-year career in health care administration and consulting. Yet my love of history never left me. Years after entering the health care field, I resumed a serious study of history, began to give presentations to Civil War roundtables, and eventually wrote my first book, John P. Slough: The Forgotten Civil War General. As an author and historian, I am drawn to studying little-known Americans whose influence extended far beyond their fame today. John Slough, for example, enjoyed sufficient notoriety that newspapers widely reported on his activities between 1857 and 1867, yet after his death in 1867, his accomplishments faded from memory. My current project, a biography of Japanese prisoner-of-war and postwar peace activist Alice Franklin Bryant, continues my interest in largely-forgotten Americans with an outsized impact on their times. Watch a video presentation I recently gave about Slough's role in the Civil War. See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlucCBiaayY&t=165s
Read more Read less

Try Audible membership today. Start enjoying the benefits.

Try Audible for free with an audiobook of your choice.
Try Standard free
Auto-renews at AUD $8.99/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Most Popular

Product list
  • John P. Slough cover art

    $27.90 or free with 30-day trial

    Try Standard free