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Encyclopedia > Alan Brinkley

Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He is a progressive historian of the New Deal. Brinkley writes regularly in magazines such as Newsweek and The New Republic and is a strong advocate for progressive issues. As a professor and provost at Columbia, he is affectionately known as the "Brinkiester". Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 - March 5, 1971) was an educator, historian, and author and journalist. ... For other senses of this word, see history (disambiguation). ... | Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: New Deal The New Deal is the name given to the series of programs implemented between 1933-37 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt with the goal of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the Great Depression. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... For other uses, see the disambiguation section. ...


He is son of television journalist David Brinkley, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. David Brinkley David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American television newscaster for NBC and, later, ABC. From 1956 through 1970 he co-anchored NBCs nightly news program The Huntley–Brinkley Report with Chet Huntley. ... The Presidential Medal of Freedom The Presidential Medal of Freedom is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States, considered the equivalent of the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. ...


Career

Graduate of the Landon School, an elite preparatory school in suburban Washington, DC.


1971 B.A. Princeton University Princeton University is a coeducational private university located on an extensive campus in and around suburban Princeton, New Jersey. ...


1979 Ph.D. Harvard University Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...


1991 professor of American History, Columbia University Pre-Colonial America For details, see the main Pre-Colonial America article. ... | Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ...


1998–1999, Harmsworth Professor of American History, Oxford University The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...


1999-2003 faculty member, the Century Institute The Century Institute is a summer program for politically progressive college students. ...


2000-2003 history dept chair


University Provost This article is about the higher education title of provost. ...


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

Brinkley has also written several textbooks which are used by college and high school U.S. history classes.


Awards Received

  • 1983 National Book Award for Voices of Protest
  • 1987 Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize

  Results from FactBites:
 
First Measured Century: Interview: Alan Brinkley (3854 words)
Alan Brinkley is a Professor of History at Columbia University and Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Century Foundation, a nonpartisan think-tank.
ALAN BRINKLEY: The 1920s were one of the most dynamically prosperous periods of American history up to that point, at least for those parts of the population that benefited from it.
ALAN BRINKLEY: For the average American in the 1920s the federal government was a fairly remote presence.
Columbia News ::: New Beginnings for a Columbia Veteran: Alan Brinkley's First Days as Provost (714 words)
Alan Brinkley has been provost of Columbia University for just over three months and is already juggling a daunting schedule as Columbia's chief academic officer.
Brinkley finds his biggest surprise in his first days to be, "the magnitude of the job." "I knew it was a big job, but knowing it and feeling it are two different things," says the new provost in his Low Library office that overlooks Lewisohn and Earl Halls.
Although Brinkley is on teaching leave, he continues to advise his current graduate students and hopes to return to teaching next year.
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