Stephen M. Miller

My research focuses on the British Army and the South African War.  I have finished a volume for the Army Records Society entitled, The Military Papers of Field Marshal Sir George White 1885-1900:  Upper Burma, India, and South Africa.  It was published in February 2026.  It’s a companion piece of sorts to George White and the Victorian Army in India and Africa published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2020.

My latest book research project is tentatively entitled, “Understanding the Victorian Soldier:  Feelings and Emotions in the South African War,” and will explore the experience of British and Imperial troops in that conflict.

Courses taught

HTY 106: Modern Europe
HTY 279: European Military History
HTY 449: History of South Africa
HTY 450: History of the British Empire
HTY 456: History of Great Britain II
HTY 498: Senior Seminar: European History
HTY 511: Research Seminar — Military History
HTY 519: Modern Britain and Empire
HTY 550: Readings on British Military History
HTY 550: Readings on Modern Britain and Empire

Interviews

“The South African War,” Supplemental Video to Criterion’s production of Bruce Beresford’s Breaker Morant, 2015.

Recent Book Reviews

“War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939-1953,” by Alfred Tembo, Journal of Military History 86:3 (2022):  734-5.

“General Lord Rawlinson:  From Tragedy to Triumph,” by Rodney Atwood, Journal of Military History 84: 1 (2020):  301-2.

“Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontiers: Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison” by Graham Dominy, American Historical Review 122:2 (2017):  617-618.

“Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler” by Colin D. Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis, Journal of African History 57:1 (2016):  157-158.

“Charlie’s First War: South Africa, 1899-1900” by C.H. Tweddell, ed. by Carman Miller, Journal of Military History 79:2 (2015):  501-502.

“Zulu Warriors:  The Battle for the South African Frontier” by John Laband, The American Historical Review 120:3 (2015):  1156-1157.

Recent Presentations

“Edgar Wallace’s War:  Reporting the Battle of Vlakfontein,” Re-imagining the Anglo-Boer (South African) War: New perspectives 120 years down the line, War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein, October 2019.

“British Surrendering and the South African War, 1899-1902,” Britain and the World Conference, University of Exeter, June 2018.

“The Hague Convention and the South African War,” with Jessica P. Miller, Britain and the World Conference, London, June 2016.

Chair, The Society for Military History’s Presidential Panel hosted by the Society for Army Historical Research, “Setting New Borders in British Army History,” Society for Military History, Annual Meeting, Ottawa, April 2016.