Allan Nevins project : oral history, 1963-1971.

Scope and Contents

Associates of Allan Nevins during his long career at Columbia(1928-1958) and later at the Huntington Library recall the historian and the man as they knew him. Many of the interviews, contributed by Mort Lewis, a California friend, deal largely with his last years. Included is a half-hour interview with Nevins in 1963, conducted by Owen Bombard on film, subsequently transferred to 3/4-inch video cassette. Nevins discusses Henry Ford and his place in history. It was donated to the Collection by the company in 1978 Participants and pagination of transcripts: Lillian Bean, 48; Ray Allen Billington, 41; Bruce O. Bliven, 11; William Cullen Bryant II, 19; Carl Haverlin, 26; Mort Lewis, 113; E.B. Long, 30; Allan Nevins 61; Allan Nevins on Henry Ford; Allan Nevins and Mort Lewis, 33; Arthur Nevins, 18; Mary Nevins, 83; John Niven with Hal Bridges, 44; Irving Stone, 38; Jean Stone, 12; James Thorpe, 4; Justin Turner, 12

Subjects

• Columbia University.
• Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.
• Historiography.
• Interviews.
• Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971.
• Oral histories (literary works)