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
- New “By the People” Crowdsourcing Transcription Campaign: A Journey Across Mexico in 1849: The Journals and Sketchbooks of Benajah Jay Antrim January 30th, 2025
- George Washington and the Federal Workforce January 16th, 2025
- Memphis T. Garrison and the NAACP Christmas Seal Program December 26th, 2024
- Of Note: The Earliest Surviving Poem by Edgar Allan Poe October 31st, 2024
- Envisioning the Twentieth-Century Past in the Library of Congress Archives October 17th, 2024
- Intern Spotlight: The Shifting Reputation of Christopher Columbus as Seen in the Christopher Columbus Collection at the Library of Congress October 3rd, 2024
- George Washington’s Uncle Writes Home: The Letterbook of Joseph Ball September 19th, 2024
- George Washington and the “Spirit of Association” September 5th, 2024
- “On the Air” and in the Archives: The Dr. Ruth Westheimer Papers July 25th, 2024