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20 de feb. de 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 ...
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. His output included the eight-volume history of the Civil War, Ordeal of the ...
Allan Nevins. Historian. Senior Research Associate, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, 1958– 69. Dewitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University, 1931–58. Author of The American States During and After the Revolution; The Emergence of Modern America; and many biographies.
Allan Nevins. President of the Association, 1959. A paper read at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, held in Chicago, Illinois, December 29, 1959. Published in the American Historical Review 65, no. 2, January 1960, pp. 253–270.
1 de feb. de 2012 · Immersed in Great Affairs is the first book-length biography of noted historian and journalist Allan Nevins. In a career that spanned nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century, Nevins won two Pulitzer Prizes, helped draft John F. Kennedy's acceptance speech at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, composed the monumental eight-volume history of the American Civil War, Ordeal of the ...
Allan Nevins: A Reminiscence. DONALD F. TINGLEY. 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.
8 de jun. de 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. Allan Nevins was born on a farm near Camp Point, Illinois, on May 20, 1890, the ...
