jmcmillian@gsu.edu | History Department, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 4117, Atlanta GA 30302-4117
>> SCHOLAR, WRITER AND EDITOR
John is an assistant professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he specializes in studying 20th century social movements and the Vietnam War Era. He has a Ph.D. in American history from Columbia University, and his dissertation was honored by the American Journalism Historians Association. From 2001-2009, he taught at Harvard University, in the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, and in the Undergraduate Writing Program. He is a founding editor of The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, and in January 2011 his book Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America was published by Oxford University Press. Currently he is at work on Beatles Vs. Stones: The History of a Legendary Rivalry (Free Press/Simon & Schuster).
>> NEW BOOK
Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press
and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
>> THE SIXTIES
>> BOOKS
• 'Protest Nation: Words that Inspired a Century of American Radicalism' co-edited by John McMillian and Timothy Patrick McCarthy
• 'The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition' edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian
• 'The New Left Revisited' by John McMillian and Paul Buhle
• 'Freedom on My Mind: the Columbia Reader of African-American History' by Manning Marable, John McMillian, and Nishani Frasier
>> CURRENT PROJECTS
• Beatles vs. Stones: The History of a Legendary Rivalry [ forthcoming, Free Press/Simon & Schuster ]
[ Dutch language edition of Beatles vs. Stones, Amsterdam: De Boekerij ]
[ Italian language edition of Beatles vs. Stones, Rome: Guis Laterza e Figli ]
