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Allan Nevins (the 20th of May 1890 - the 5th of March 1971) was an American historian and journalist born in Camp Point, Illinois. He is best known for his eight-volume Civil War history Ordeal of the Union, two Pulitzer Prizes in biography, and for founding the first institutionalized oral history program in the United States at Columbia University in 1948.
Allan Nevins won two Pulitzer Prizes for Biography or Autobiography. The first was for Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage in 1933, and the second was for Hamilton Fish: The Inner Story of the Grant Administration four years later.
Ordeal of the Union is an eight-volume history of the coming of the American Civil War and the war itself, published between 1947 and 1971. It remains the most detailed political, economic, and military narrative of the era. The final two volumes won the U.S. National Book Award in History in 1972.
Yes. In 1948, Nevins created the first oral history program to operate on an institutionalized basis in the United States. That program continues today as Columbia University's Center for Oral History.
Business journalist Ferdinand Lundberg criticized Nevins for deferring to power and misleading readers. Specifically, Nevins argued Rockefeller did nothing criminal, which critics noted appeared to equate non-prosecution with innocence, particularly given Rockefeller's connection to the Ludlow Massacre.
Nevins hosted Adventures in Science, a 15-minute program on CBS broadcast as part of the network's Adult Education Series. He hosted the show from the 6th of May 1938, until the 18th of August 1957, covering a wide variety of medical and scientific topics, usually in the late afternoon.