| Title: |
Reminiscences of Allan Nevins
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP88-A83
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
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.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 290 leaves, Tape: 6 reels, Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. Microfiche copy available for purchase. (Columbia University oral history collection, part III, published by Meckler Publishing, Westport, CT).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1963 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1890
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| Speaker occupation: |
Author; Historian
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| Age at speaking: |
73
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| Document date: |
1963
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| Interviewer: |
Hill, Frank Ernest, 1888-1969
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| Organizations discussed: |
Columbia University, New York, NY; U.S. Department of State
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| Historical events discussed: |
U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Authors; Columbia University, New York, NY; Historians; Historiography; Intellectual life--United States; Journalism; North America; Oral history; Periodicals--Publishing; U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865; U.S. Department of State; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Biography (as a literary form); Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0020402-15844
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