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Historians including Ray Allen Billington compiled Allan Nevins on History (1975) to celebrate his accomplishments. His granddaughter Jane Mayer also became a journalist and author. The Society of American Historians awards an Allan Nevins Prize annually in his honor.
Allan Nevins 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. He also established the country’s first oral history program.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Allan Nevins on history, compiled and introduced by Ray Allen Billington. New York: Scribner, 1975. A diary of battle: the personal journals of colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861 1865, edited by Allan Nevins; new foreword by Stephen W. Sears. 1st Da Capo Press ed. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998.
2 Nevins, Allan, “The Autobiography,” collected in Allan Nevins on History, compiled and introduced by Billington, Ray Allen (New York: Scribners, 1975), 237 –38Google Scholar. For a good example of Nevins' earlier praise of the genre, see Nevins, , The Gateway to History (1938; rept. New York: D. Appleton & Century, 1938), 323.Google Scholar
- Marc Dolan
- 1993
As history is, however, perfection with which Nevins accom- White is a rather obscure politician in American history. (Allan Nevins, Henry White , Harper plishes & this aim in his Henry White is Bros., New York, 1930, p. 56.) evidenced by the fact that the reader. often finds himself and his interest.
In June 1960, Theodore Sorenson, advisor to then senator John F. Kennedy, asked the historian Allan Nevins to help in drafting the speech Kennedy would deliver in accepting the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party at its upcoming national convention in Los Angeles.
His historical work led to an appointment to Columbia's history faculty in 1928 and he was named DeWitt Clinton Professor of History in 1939, succeeding his former teacher, mentor, and colleague, the historian Evarts Greene.
