Allan Nevins project : oral history, 1966-1971.

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Allan Nevins project : oral history, 1966-1971.

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Associates of Allan Nevins during his long career at Columbia(1928-58) 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: Lillian Bean, 47; Ray Allen Billington, 40; Bruce O. Bliven, 11; William Cullen Bryant II, 21; Carl Haverlin, 25; Mort Lewis, 110; E.B. Long, 29; Allan Nevins 61; Allan Nevins and Mort Lewis, 33; Arthur Nevins, 17; Mary Nevins, 81; John Niven with Hal Bridges, 43; Irving Stone, 37; Jean Stone, 11; James Thorpe, 3; Justin Turner, (cont.)11.

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971

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Historian, journalist and educator. He attended the University of Illinois where he earned a B. A. 1912 and an M. A. in English, 1913. Nevins moved to New York to work and eventually was made a Professor of History at Columbia University. Wrote numerous biographies and articles on history. President of the American History Association in 1959. Helped found the Society of American Historians. From the description of Commencement address, June 1953. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Librar...