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Allan Nevins

Allan NevinsBorn: 20-May-1890
Birthplace: Camp Point, IL
Died: 5-Mar-1971
Location of death: Menlo Park, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The War for the Union

Wife: Mary Fleming Richardson (until his death, two daughters)

    University: MA English, University of Illinois (1913)
    Professor: Columbia University (1931-58)
    Professor: American History, Oxford University (1940-41)
    Professor: American History, Oxford University (1964-65)

    Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1933 for Grover Cleveland
    Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1937 for Hamilton Fish
    The New York Evening Post

Author of books:
Illinois (1917, corporate history)
The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism (1922, corporate history)
The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775-1789 (1924, history)
The Emergence of Modern America, 1865-1878 (1927, history)
Frémont: The West's Greatest Adventurer (1928, biography)
Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (1932, biography)
Abram S. Hewitt: With Some Account of Peter Cooper (1935, biography)
Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration (1936, biography)
John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise (1940, biography)
America: The Story of a Free People (1942, history)
A Century of Political Cartoons: Caricature in the United States from 1800 to 1900 (1944, media studies)
The Ordeal of the Union (1947, history)
The Emergence of Lincoln (1950, history)
The War for the Union (1959, history)
Herbert H. Lehman and His Era (1963, biography)
Timber and Men: The Weyerhaeuser Story (1963, corporate history)


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