Neil R. McMillen is an American historian, and professor emeritus at University of Southern Mississippi.
He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a BA and MA, and from Vanderbilt University with a Ph.D. His papers are held at University of Southern Mississippi.
He lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the winter and on Lake Superior in Upper Michigan in the summer.
1990 Bancroft Prize
1990 Gustavus Myers Prize
1990 McLemore Prize
1990 Pulitzer Prize finalist
"The American Reaction to the Rise of Nazi Germany, March, 1933 - March, 1934" (USM thesis, 1963)
Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom. Chicago: Rand McNally. 1973. ISBN 978-0-528-82487-6.
Charles Grier Sellers, Henry Farnham May, Neil R. McMillen (1974). A synopsis of American history. Chicago: Rand McNally College Pub. Co. I.R. Dee. ISBN 978-0-929587-74-5. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link) (7th Edition 1992)
Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-252-06156-1.
The Citizens' Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-64. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-252-06441-8. (1st edition 1971)
Neil R. McMillen, ed. (1997). Remaking Dixie: The Impact of World War II on the American South. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0-87805-928-7.
Geoffrey Jensen, Andrew Wiest, eds. (2001). "World War II and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement". War in the age of technology: myriad faces of modern armed conflict. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-4251-8. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
