• 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...
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  • historian Allan Nevins. Two further volumes, intended to cover the Reconstruction era were planned, but not written as a result of Nevins's 1971 death...
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    15; Nevins, 46 Graff, 14; Nevins, 51–52 Nevins, 52–53 Nevins, 54 Nevins, 54–55 Nevins, 55–56 Nevins, 56 Tugwell, 26 Nevins, 44–45 Tugwell, 32 Nevins, 58...
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    historians began to appear as the Depression ended. Business historian Allan Nevins advanced the "Industrial Statesman" thesis in his John D. Rockefeller:...
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    conservative." Allan Nevins argued that the Civil War was an "irrepressible" conflict, adopting a phrase from Senator William H. Seward. Nevins synthesized...
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  • British Establishment and Empire. In 1959, the historian of journalism Allan Nevins analysed the importance of The Times in shaping the views of events of...
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  • other abuses of government power. With his Columbia University colleague Allan Nevins, Commager helped to organize academic support for Adlai E. Stevenson...
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  • historian who taught for over 20 years at Columbia University. He was the Allan Nevins Professor of History until his death. From 2003 to 2009, he was University...
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    65 or over. F. D. Thomas House Allan Nevins (1890–1971), journalist and historian; born in Camp Point Arthur S. Nevins (1891–1979), brigadier general...
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    the utter downfall of Abolitionism". Historians James M. McPherson and Allan Nevins state that though the results looked very troubling, they could be seen...
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    Welch, 111 Graff, 113-114 Nevins, 528–529; Graff, 115–116 Nevins, 531–533 Nevins, 529 Nevins, 530–531 Nevins, 532–533 Nevins, 533; Graff, 116 Welch, 121...
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    taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy– [sic] Historian Allan Nevins, writing about the turmoil preceding the American Civil War, states that...
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    Confederates in control of but 63% of its population. Civil War scholar Allan Nevins argues that 1862 was the strategic high-water mark of the Confederacy...
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    for Biography or Autobiography twice: Burton J. Hendrick, 1923, 1929 Allan Nevins, 1933, 1937 Marquis James, 1930, 1938 Douglas S. Freeman, 1935, 1958...
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    p. 50. Guelzo, p. 51. Guelzo, p. 52. Nevins 1939b, p. 550. Nevins 1939b, p. 554. Nevins 1939b, p. 555. Nevins 1939b, pp. 555–56. Tucker 2013, p. 467...
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    February 2012. Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Nevins 1954 "Harry S. Truman – Library & Museum – Draft, The President's...
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    F. Pringle (1932) Allan Nevins (1933) Tyler Dennett (1934) Douglas Southall Freeman (1935) Ralph Barton Perry (1936) Allan Nevins (1937) Odell Shepard/Marquis...
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  • Allan Nevins (1890–1971), American historian Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, American writer Arthur S. Nevins (1891–1979), American historian Caitlyn Nevins...
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    reprint, 2006. Nevins, Allan (1940). John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise. Favorable scholarly biography Nevins, Allan (1953). Study...
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    F. Pringle (1932) Allan Nevins (1933) Tyler Dennett (1934) Douglas Southall Freeman (1935) Ralph Barton Perry (1936) Allan Nevins (1937) Odell Shepard/Marquis...
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    widely celebrated and became a bestseller. It includes a foreword by Allan Nevins. John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator, won the Pulitzer Prize for the...
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  • dissertation, The Idea of a Southern Nation, he was awarded the 1977 Allan Nevins Prize by the Society of American Historians. McCardell joined the History...
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    Address", in Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address: Commemorative Papers, ed. Allan Nevins. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, p. 133; Mearns and Dunlap, caption...
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  • articles on notable figures that scholarly biography gained momentum. Allan Nevins, a prominent contributor to the Dictionary, wrote prize-winning full-length...
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    Composition William S. Merwin, Poetry Samuel Eliot Morison, Biography Allan Nevins, Biography Lynn Nottage, Drama Walter Piston, Music Composition T. J...
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    name with much support was former President Millard Fillmore. Historian Allan Nevins says Fillmore was not a Know-Nothing or a nativist. He was out of the...
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    rallied the North to the defense of American nationalism. Historian Allan Nevins writes: The thunderclap of Sumter produced a startling crystallization...
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    October 26, 2023. Allan Nevins. Ordeal of the Union, Volume II: A House Dividing 1852–1857 (New York, 1947), 413–415. Allan Nevins. The Emergence of Lincoln...
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  • Termed "business revisionism" by Gabriel Kolko, historians such as Allan Nevins, and then Alfred D. Chandler emphasized the positive contributions of...
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    1870–1896, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1975. Allan Nevins. Grover Cleveland A study in courage (1938). C. Vann Woodward, Origins...
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