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Joseph Allan Nevins (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 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.
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 (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.
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.
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...
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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.
Author of The American States During and After the Revolution; The Emergence of Modern America; and many biographies.
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 judgment and...
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Jan 19, 2004 · Immersed in Great Affairs: Allan Nevins and the Heroic Age of American History. Gerald L. Fetner. SUNY Press, Jan 19, 2004 - History - 243 pages. Immersed in Great Affairs is the first...
