When and where was Allan Nevins born?
Joseph Allan Nevins arrived in the world on the 20th of May 1890 within Camp Point, Illinois. He entered life as the son of a stern Presbyterian farmer and a mother with German heritage.
Joseph Allan Nevins arrived in the world on the 20th of May 1890 within Camp Point, Illinois. He entered life as the son of a stern Presbyterian farmer and a mother with German heritage.
Allan Nevins won two Pulitzer Prizes for Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage in 1933 and Hamilton Fish: The Inner Story of the Grant Administration four years later. His Civil War series also earned him the Bancroft Prize and a $10,000 Scribners Literary Prize while the final volumes won the U.S. National Book Award in History in 1972.
As an historian he published over fifty books plus possibly more than one thousand articles. He supervised more than one hundred doctoral dissertations throughout his professional lifetime.
In 1948 Nevins created the first oral history program operating on an institutionalized basis in the United States. This initiative continues today as Columbia University's Center for Oral History.
Nevins died in Menlo Park California on the 5th of March 1971. He was buried at Kensico Cemetery in Westchester County New York.