Reminiscences of Allan Nevins, 1963.

Biographical Note

Author, historian

Scope and Contents

Illinois farm life in the 1890s; family and neighbors; education, formal and informal; reading, the University of Illinois; Stuart Pratt Sherman, New York, N.Y. and editorial work for the NATION and EVENING POST, 1913-1918: editorial conferences, Oswald Garrison Villard, Rollo Ogden, Simeon Strunsky; social and intellectual activities: the Strunsky circle; the LITERARY REVIEW, book reviewing, Christopher Morley; sale of the POST, 1923; NEW YORK HERALD and NEW YORK SUN: Frank Munsey; NEW YORK WORLD, 1923-31: Walter Lippmann, Claude Bowers, Herbert B. Swope; Cornell, 1927: Carl Becker; early books and the legacy of journalism experience; Columbia, 1928-58: teaching; biographies of Cleveland and Fish; Oxford, 1940-1941; for Office of War Information to Australia and New Zealand, 1942; chief public affairs officer, London, for Department of State, 1946-47; founding of Oral History Research Office, 1948-49; AMERICAN HERITAGE, 1950; business history: Hewitt, Rockefeller, Ford, and Weyerhaeuser studies; ORDEAL OF THE UNION; to California, 1958

Subjects

• Authors--Interviews.
• Biography as a literary form.
• Columbia University.
• Hill, Frank Ernest, 1888-1969, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Historians--Interviews.
• Historiography.
• Interviews.
• Journalism.
• Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Oral history.
• Periodicals--Publishing.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States--Intellectual life.
• United States. Department State.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976