Alan Brinkley
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Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins
Professor of History
at Columbia University
, where he was also Provost
2003–2009. He was denied tenure at Harvard University
in 1986 despite being an award-winning teacher. He lives in New York City
with his wife, Evangeline, daughter Elly, and dog Jessie. Brinkley is the son of television newscaster David Brinkley
.
Brinkley has won a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the National Book Award for History, and numerous other prizes and fellowships, and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
. He also serves as a board member or trustee of several academic and policy research institutions and chairs the board of The Century Foundation
.
Brinkley has also written several textbooks which are used by college and high school U.S. history classes.
Allan Nevins
Allan Nevins was an American historian and journalist, renowned for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as President Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller.-Life:Born in Camp Point, Illinois, Nevins was educated at...
Professor of History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, where he was also Provost
Provost (education)
A provost is the senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States, Canada and Australia, the equivalent of a pro-vice-chancellor at some institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland....
2003–2009. He was denied tenure at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
in 1986 despite being an award-winning teacher. He lives in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
with his wife, Evangeline, daughter Elly, and dog Jessie. Brinkley is the son of television newscaster David Brinkley
David Brinkley
David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997....
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Brinkley has won a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the National Book Award for History, and numerous other prizes and fellowships, and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...
. He also serves as a board member or trustee of several academic and policy research institutions and chairs the board of The Century Foundation
The Century Foundation
The Century Foundation is an US progressive think tank. It was founded as a nonprofit public policy research institution on the belief that the prosperity and security of the United States depends on a mix of effective government, open democracy, and free markets. The Foundation is headquartered...
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Works
- 1982 Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression
- 1992 The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
- 1995 The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
- 1998 Liberalism and Its Discontents
- 2009 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2010 The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
Textbooks
- American History: A SurveyAmerican history: a surveyAmerican History: A Survey is a textbook first published in 1961 that was written initially by the historians Richard N. Current, T. Harry Williams, and Frank Freidel and later by Alan Brinkley, the Allan Nevins professor of history at Columbia University...
- an AP U.S. HistoryAP United States HistoryAdvanced Placement United States History is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program...
and International Baccalaureate HistoryIB Group 3 subjectsThe Group 3 subjects of the IB Diploma Programme consist of nine courses offered at both the Standard level and Higher level : Business and management, Economics, Geography, History, Information technology in a global society , Islamic history, Philosophy, Psychology, and Social and cultural...
Textbook used in high schools and college. - The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People - AP Textbook used in high schools.
Brinkley has also written several textbooks which are used by college and high school U.S. history classes.
Awards
- 1983 National Book AwardNational Book AwardThe National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
for Voices of Protest - 1987 Joseph R. LevensonJoseph R. LevensonJoseph R. Levenson was a scholar of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley until a fatal accident resulted in his death....
Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University - 2003 Great Teacher Award, Columbia University
- 2006-2007 Scholarly Journal Award by Kathy Walh-Henshaw at St. Mary's Lancaster