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Alan David Brinkley (June 2, 1949 – June 16, 2019) [1] [2] was an American political historian who taught for over 20 years at Columbia University. He was the Allan Nevins Professor of History until his death.
American History: A Survey is organized in a way that reflects a high school-level U.S. history course. The chapters follow the nation's history chronologically. In the preface to the book, Brinkley states his purpose is "to be a thorough, balanced, and versatile account of America's past that instructors and students will find accessible and appropriate no matter what approach to the past a ...
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression is a 1982 history by Alan Brinkley of contemporary left-wing criticism of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Programs, [1] [2] focusing primarily on Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin. It won the National Book Award for History in 1983. [3]
Campaigns: A Century of Presidential Races (2001) (co-author with Alan Brinkley) Martin Van Buren (2005) (the American Presidents Series published by Times Books) Ark of the Liberties: America and the World (2008) (a history of U.S. foreign policy) Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy (2012) (co-author with ...
The film was produced for PBS by BJW, Inc. and New River Media, Inc. and was first broadcast in December 2000. The film traces American history during the 20th century through a sequence of vignettes of pioneering social scientists who used numerical tools to examine America. The film mixes archival footage, archival still photography and ...
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Blum is the author of several historical works, including Joseph Tumulty and the Wilson Era (1951) (about President Woodrow Wilson's private secretary Joseph Patrick Tumulty), The Republican Roosevelt (1954), V Was for Victory (1977) (about World War II), and Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961–1974 (1992) (covering U.S. politics from the inauguration of U.S. President John ...