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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.
May 16, 2024 · During this period he also developed his credentials as a historian; he compiled and edited a collection of documents entitled American Social History as Recorded by British Travellers (1923); wrote two works on U.S. history, The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775–1789 (1924) and The Emergence of Modern America, 1865–1878 ...
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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.
Feb 20, 2017 · Authors who imagine they write for the ages should look to the chastening example of Allan Nevins (1890-1971). Once a giant in the field whose name often appeared alongside earlier luminaries such as James Ford Rhodes, Nevins worked almost literally to the end of his long life. A prolific historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize who ...
Mar 6, 1971 · MENLO PARK, Calif., March 5—Allan Nevins, the historian and biographer who won two Pulitzer Prizes and pioneered in the establishment of the oral history movement, died today in a nursing...
Mar 6, 1971 · A newspaperman once himself—on The Post, The Sun and The World—Allan Nevins brought to the writing of American history and biography a journalist's curiosity, dedication to balanced...
During this period he also compiled and edited a collection of documents titled American Social History as Recorded by British Travellers (1923); wrote two works on U.S. history, The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775–1789 (1924) and The Emergence of Modern America, 1865–1878 (1927); and produced a biography of explorer John C...
