AUTHOR: Julie Miller
Julie Miller is the curator of early American manuscripts in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. In 2022 she was a staff fellow at the Library’s John W. Kluge Center. She is currently curating a Library of Congress exhibition about George Washington and King George III: “The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution.” She has an MLS from Simmons College, Boston, and a PhD in United States History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before coming to the Library of Congress she taught in the history department at Hunter College, CUNY. Prior to that she worked as an archivist. She is the author of: Abandoned: Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City (NYU Press, 2008) and Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman’s Ruin and Revenge in Old New York (Three Hills, Cornell University Press, October, 2020), several articles, and many blog posts.
Most Recent Posts
- Thomas Jefferson and the Rumford Fireplace January 22nd, 2026
- Of Note: George Washington and the Beaver Tail: An Unfinished Tale December 18th, 2025
- Of Note: A Manifesto’s Lasting Legacy September 25th, 2025
- Copies of Copies: British-Intercepted Letters During the Revolutionary War September 4th, 2025
- Behind the Scenes with the Treaty of Ghent: The Library of Congress Acquires Unpublished Correspondence Between Henry Clay and William Harris Crawford August 21st, 2025
- Baltimore’s Seaport in the Age of Revolution is Revealed in the Manuscript Division’s Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection July 17th, 2025
- Made at the Library: The Declaration in Script and Print July 10th, 2025
- Margaret Hunter Hall: Reluctant Traveler to the Antebellum United States June 26th, 2025
- Mary Oliver: Poet of the Natural World: A Library of Congress Exhibit Celebrates Pulitzer-Prize Winning Poet Mary Oliver May 15th, 2025