Richard Millman (1932–1983) was an American historian. He worked at the University of Illinois,J. J. Sack, From Jacobite to Conservative. Reaction and Orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760–1832 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. v.Richard Shannon, 'Reviewed Work: Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1878 by Richard Millman', The English Historical Review Vol. 96, No. 378 (Jan., 1981), p. 169. and was an instructor at Temple University in 1960–1961.S. W. Higginbotham, 'News and Comment', Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1 (January, 1961), p. 84.
Millman's 1979 work on Benjamin Disraeli's policy during the Great Eastern Crisis of 1875–78 (Britain and the Eastern Question) was called the "authoritative account" by M. R. D. FootM. R. D. Foot, 'Reviewed Work: Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1878 by Richard Millman', Victorian Studies Vol. 23, No. 4 (Summer, 1980), p. 520. and a "masterly achievement" by John Vincent.John Vincent, 'Reviewed Work: Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1878 by Richard Millman', History, Vol. 65, No. 214 (1980), p. 321. According to Richard Shannon, Millman "challenges the Seton-Watsonian tradition and boldly essays to restore the credibility of Disraeli's attempt to reassert the Palmerstonian tradition of maintaining the independence and integrity of the Ottoman Empire as a capital British interest".
Works British Foreign Policy and the Coming of the Franco-Prussian War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965). Britain and the Eastern Question, 1875-1878 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979). 'The Bulgarian Massacres Reconsidered', The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Apr., 1980), pp. 218–231.
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