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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 (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.
Allan Nevins (1890-1971) was a prolific and influential historian who taught at Columbia from 1928 to 1958. He wrote biographies, histories, and articles on topics such as the Civil War, presidential politics, and oral history.
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.
Feb 20, 2017 · A review of Allan Nevins' Ordeal of the Union, a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Civil War and its impact on American society. The article praises Nevins' scholarship, writing and perspective, and laments his neglect by modern historians.
Ordeal of the Union is an eight-volume series of books (published 1947–1971) on mid-19th century American history, and particularly on the American Civil War and its background, written by historian Allan Nevins.
Allan Nevins as a Narrative Historian. by Robert Middlekauff. For more than a century the Civil War has been of obsessive interest American historians. The field for many years has been one of the. fertile in American historiography, productive of studies large. small, broad and intensive, interpretative and descriptive.
