births
February 25, 1905
Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic (died 1963)
Perry Miller
Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller was an American intellectual historian and a co-founder of the field of American Studies. Miller specialized in the history of early America and took an active role in a revisionist view of the colonial Puritan theocracy that was cultivated at Harvard University beginning in the 1920s. Heavy drinking led to his premature death at the age of 58.
February 25
February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 309 days remain until the end of the year.