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Joseph 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.
He was raised on a farm. Nevins was educated at the University of Illinois, where he earned an M.A. in English in 1913. He worked as a journalist in New York City and began writing books on history. In 1929, he joined the history faculty of Columbia University. In 1939 he succeeded Evarts Boutell Greene, his teacher at Illinois and mentor at Columbia, as the Dewitt Clinton Professor of History there. He was appointed Harmsworth Professor of…

The Evening post; a century of journalism (1922)
The American states during and after the revolution, 1775-1789 (1927) online edition
A History of American Life vol. VIII: The Emergence of Modern America 1865-1878 (1927)
Frémont, the West's greatest adventurer; being a biography from certain hitherto unpublished sources of General John C. Frémont, together with his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, and some account of the period of expansion which found a brilliant leader in the Pathfinder (1928) online edition
Polk; the diary of a president, 1845–1849, covering the Mexican war, the acquisition of Oregon, and the conquest of California and the Southwest, (1929)
Henry White; thirty years of…