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2 giorni fa · Twenty-five years after the death of President Cleveland in 1908, American historian Allan Nevins wrote a biography of Grover Cleveland. Titled, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage , the book earned Allan a Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1933, and although 873-pages in length, just four of those pages dealt with the Maria Halpin episode.
5 giorni fa · Oral History at Columbia. "The Columbia Center for Oral History (CCOH) was founded by historian and journalist Allan Nevins in 1948 and is credited with launching the establishment of oral history archives internationally." From: Oral History Archives (Columbia University Libraries)
5 giorni fa · In the early morning of June 4, 1896, Henry Ford made his first trial run in a small, four-wheeled vehicle he called a "Quadricycle," subsequently described by historian Allan Nevins as "Strikingly small and light - the lightest vehicle of its type yet produced."
1 giorno fa · The Know Nothings were a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s, officially known as the Native American Party before 1855, and afterwards simply the American Party.
1 giorno fa · April 9 – November 6, 1865. Today part of. United States. The Union, colloquially known as the North, refers to the United States when eleven Southern slave states seceded to form the Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederacy or South, during the American Civil War. The Union was led by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th ...
5 giorni fa · Allan Nevins, in Ordeal of the Union, paraphrases President Taylor describing a meeting he had that day… ‘I told them…that if it becomes necessary I will take command of the army myself to enforce the laws. And I said that if you men are taken in rebellion against the Union, I will hang you…’
1 giorno fa · As biographer Allan Nevins wrote, "Probably no man in the country, on March 4, 1881, had less thought than this limited, simple, sturdy attorney of Buffalo that four years later he would be standing in Washington and taking the oath as President of the United States."
