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Joseph Allan Nevins [1] (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service.
May 16, 2024 · Allan Nevins (born May 20, 1890, Camp Point, Illinois, U.S.—died March 5, 1971, Menlo Park, California) was an American historian, author, and educator, known especially for his eight-volume history of the American Civil War and his biographies of American political and industrial figures.
Allan Nevins (1890-1971) Historian. Faculty 1928-58. LittD 1960 (hon.) Wedding the craft of journalism to rigorous scholarship, Nevins wrote more than fifty books and scores of articles during his career, which spanned nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century.
Feb 20, 2017 · A prolific historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize who spent much of his academic career at Columbia University, Nevins produced a body of work that reached a broad popular as well as a scholarly audience.
Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890–March 5, 1971), former president of the American Historical Association, died on March 5, 1971, after a varied and distinguished career of some sixty years in journalism, teaching, writing, scholarship, and academic and public service.
Jun 8, 2018 · Allan Nevins (1890-1971) began life as a journalist but ended it with a reputation as one of the best popular American historians of the day. Although he wrote a number of books on a variety of topics, he is most famous for his eight-volume study of the Civil War.
On March 5, 1971, Allan Nevins, biographer, historian, and a son of Illinois, died in a nursing home in Menlo Park, California.1. year later the final volumes of his monumental history of the Civil appeared. Originator of the idea of oral history, Nevins wrote dozens. books and won the Pulitzer Prize for two.2 Reviewers and critics have.
Feb 1, 2012 · Immersed in Great Affairs: Allan Nevins and the Heroic Age of American History. Gerald L. Fetner. State University of New York Press, Feb 1, 2012 - History - 255 pages. Immersed in Great...
Allan Nevins papers, 1912-1992. Summary Information. At a Glance. Call No.: Ms Coll\Nevins,Ms Coll/Nevins, A. Bib ID: 4079154 View CLIO record. Creator (s): Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971. Repository: Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Physical Description: 104 linear feet (205 boxes; ca.40700 items in oversize items; 207 record storage cartons of books)
Allan Nevins, hauled from his desk to rescue the Civil War cen-tennial in 1961, was a giant of the American historical profession in the middle decades of the twentieth century. 4 The poet and Lincoln chronicler Carl Sandburg called him “in my book the greatest of American historians.” 5 Born in rural Illinois in 1890, Nevins inher-
