Perry Miller

Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller (1905–1963) was an American intellectual historian and co-founder of American Studies, renowned for his pioneering works on Puritanism and early American thought, including his most famous book The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (1939) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Life of the Mind in America (1965, posthumous). He taught at Harvard University from 1931, served in the U.S. Army during World War II with the Office of Strategic Services, and set new standards in intellectual historiography of colonial America. His cultural approach to Puritan worldview and biography of Jonathan Edwards (1949) significantly influenced subsequent historians.