Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Perry Miller

Born: February 25, 1905
Died: December 9, 1963 (aged 58)
Bio: Perry G. E. Miller was an American intellectual historian and Harvard University professor. He was an authority on American Puritanism, and a co-founder of the field of American Studies. Alfred Kazin referred to him as "the master of American intellectual history".
Known for:
- The New England mind (1939)
- Errand into the wilderness (1952)
- American Puritans Their Prose and Poetry (1956)
- The Raven and the Whale (1956)
- The Transcendentalists (1950)