Perry Allen Miller

Perry Miller

Perry G. Miller (February 25, 1905 December 9, 1963) was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. He was an authority on...

The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century

2014 Reprint of 1954 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Perry G. E. Miller was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. He was an authority on American Puritanism, and a founder of this specialized area of Am...

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) was preeminent as a theologian in the eighteenth century American colonies, deeply involved in the religious revival known as the Great Awakening. He was also the first American Puritan, or Calvinist, to recognize the challenges to traditional views of the world posed by f...

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan EdwardsObsessed with returning American churches to its more devout Calvinist roots, Edwards began the Great Awakening in America, only to find himself cast out of his own pulpit for daring to challenge the social order of his church.

The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings

Critically acclaimed classic lets Puritans speak for themselves in crucial documents covering history, theory of state and society, religion, customs, behavior, biographies and letters, poetry, literary theory, education, science, and more. Regarded by historian Samuel Eliot Morison as "the best sel...

The Transcendentalists: An Anthology

The late Perry Miller once stated, “I have been compelled to insist that the mind of man is the basic factor in human history,” and his study of the mind in America has shaped the thought of three decades of scholars. The fifteen essays here collected―several of them previously unpublished―address t...

The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry

Perry Miller's classic one-volume anthology of Puritan writings recreates the world of seventeenth-century New England through a judicious selection of tracts, journals, sermons, and poetry by the major Puritan writers: William Bradford, Cotton Mather, John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker, Anne Bradstreet, ...

The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century

The late Perry Miller once stated, "I have been compelled to insist that the mind of man is the basic factor in human history," and his study of the mind in America has shaped the thought of three decades of scholars.The fifteen essays here collected--several of them previously unpublished--address ...

Errand into the Wilderness

The title of this book by Perry Miller, who is world-famous as an interpreter of the American past, comes close to posing the question it has been Mr. Miller's lifelong purpose to answer: What was the underlying aim of the first colonists in coming to America? In what light did they see themselves? ...

Great Awakening: Documents Illustrating the Crisis and Its Consequences

The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to Civil War

The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings

America in Crisis: Fourteen Crucial Episodes in American History

The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings

The Sketch Book

Great Awakening: Documents Illustrating the Crisis and Its Consequences

Errand into the Wilderness