Page Putnam Miller was the director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History from 1980–2000. Miller earned her MA in history at the University of Maryland in 1974 and her PhD five years later. After teaching for a year at the University College of the University of Maryland, she was hired as director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History in 1980. In her capacity as director, Miller has coordinated the Organization of American Historians and the National Park Service’s collaborative project to revise the National Park Service’s Thematic Framework. She also served as project director for the Women’s History Landmark Project, a cooperative project of the National Park Service, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History. Miller teaches one course a year at the University of South Carolina, Cultural Institutions, Memory, and Politics, a graduate seminar that draws on her 20 years experience in Washington, DC, as the lobbyist for the historical profession. In 2003 Oxford University Press published her Landmarks of American Women’s History.
Page Putnam Miller
