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Death and legacy. Nevins died in Menlo Park, California, in 1971.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6746182/allan-nevins: accessed ), memorial page for Allan Nevins (20 May 1890–5 Mar 1971), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6746182, citing Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
From the American Historical Review 77:3 (June 1972) 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.
On March 5, 1971, Allan Nevins, biographer, historian, and a great son of Illinois, died in a nursing home in Menlo Park, California.1 One year later the final volumes of his monumental history of the Civil War
Allan Nevins was distinguished as a journalist, author, and history professor at Columbia University. His presidential address only lightly hints at the fact that he was noted for having one of the most contested relationships with the organization over which he later presided.
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Allan Nevins is gone, at last, although he seemed imperishable, and we at AMERICAN HERITAGE feel a poignant sense of loss. We measure him now by the length of the shadow he cast, and by the abiding influence he had upon us and upon the magazine we serve.
