My book, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny, has been used in over 20 colleges in the past few years. Professor Robert Perez of University of California Riverside has used the book several times in undergraduate and graduate courses. He recently emailed me his impressions of my book [...]

Richard Walker, of Indian Country Today, reviews my latest book on the Doctrine of Discovery. I co-wrote it with Indigneous professors from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. He wrote: “Professor Robert J. Miller, author of a 2007 book about President Thomas Jefferson’s use of the Doctrine of Discovery to justify the United States’ expansion and [...]

C-Span and its Book-TV program taped a seven minute interview with me about my book, Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny in October 2008. It is now playing on C-Span on different days and times and you can watch it on C-Span’s webpage by clicking on this link.

Tribal College Journal just published a rave review of my book. http://www.tribalcollegejournal.org/themag/current.html “In Native America, Discovered and Conquered Robert J. Miller explains that Manifest Destiny was based on the Doctrine of Discovery and was the legal basis, under American and European law, used to obtain title to the land in the Americas. The Doctrine of [...]

The Augusta Georgia newspaper, The Metro Spirit, just reviewed my book today. It’s an excellent review. The reviewer really caught the essence of what I say in the book. Among other things, the reviewer states: “Miller offers a poignant analysis of the justification of American expansionist policy” and “Miller has written an important book for [...]

Indian Country Today published a very nice review of my book on February 13.  Here is a short excerpt: “Professor Robert J. Miller’s ”Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny,” is a powerful book that clearly illustrates how Thomas Jefferson used a European legal tradition to justify the United States’ [...]

Professor Deborah Rosen of Lafayette College reviewed Bob Miller’s book, Native America, Discovered and Conquered for the American Historical Review, 845-46 (June 2007). She states that Miller “is persuasive in making his case that a central legal ideology [Discovery] played a crucial role in justifying American assertions of jurisdiction over western territory and Native people.”  She also [...]

NATIVE AMERICA, DISCOVERED AND CONQUERED: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny   Robert J. Miller (Praeger Publishers 2006) Reviewed by Vernon Peterson; Portland, OR “The discovery of America” was one of the “greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind,” wrote Adam Smith in “The Wealth of Nations” (1776), adding, “What [...]

Two excellent reviews have recently been published.  Dr. H. William Batt gives the book 5 stars and states that Miller has written “an important book.  It is well written, well organized, and well documented.  It should influence a number of fields – history, economics, and law most of all.” The magazine Choice, a reviewer of books for academic [...]

“There’s a  book by a Native American lawyer just published on the subject [manifest destiny]: Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny by Robert J. Miller. It’s one of my Top 50 Lewis and Clark Books picks, available through the Lewis and Clark Road Trips Amazon Associate bookstore. It’s one [...]