Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Allan Nevins
Born: May 20, 1890
Died: March 5, 1971 (aged 80)
Bio: 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 Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D.
Known for:
- The gateway to history (1938)
- A pocket history of the United States (1942)
- Fremont, pathmarker of the West (1939)
- America, the Story of a Free People (1943)
- Ordeal of the Union (1947)