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'{{BLP sources|date=March 2017}} '''Alan Brinkley''' (born June 2, 1949)<ref name=CAO>{{cite book|chapter=Alan Brinkley|title=Contemporary Authors Online|publisher=Gale|location=Detroit|year=2011}}</ref> is an [[United States|American]] historian who has taught for over 20 years at [[Columbia University]]. He is currently{{when|date=March 2017}} the [[Allan Nevins]] Professor of [[History]]. From 2003 to 2009, he was University [[Provost (education)|Provost]]. ==Early life== Brinkley was born in [[Washington, D.C.]] He is the son of Ann (Fischer) and [[David Brinkley]], a long-time television newscaster at [[NBC]] and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], and also a brother of [[Joel Brinkley]]. Brinkley was an undergraduate at [[Princeton University]] and received his doctorate at [[Harvard University]] in 1979. ==Career== Brinkley's scholarship has focused mainly on the period of the [[Great Depression]] and [[World War II]]. Among his books are ''Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression'' (1983),<ref name=nba1983/><ref group=lower-alpha name=paper/> which won the [[National Book Award]]; ''[[The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War]]'' (1995); ''[[Liberalism and its Discontents]]'' (1998); and ''[[The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century]]'' (2010), which won the [[Ambassador Book Prize]] and the [[Sperber Prize]], as well as being a [[Pulitzer Prize]] finalist. He is the author of two short biographies: ''[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'' (2009) and ''[[John F. Kennedy]]'' (2012). His essay "The Problem of American Conservatism" was published in the ''[[American Historical Review]]'' in 1994. He is one of three American historians to have been both [[Harmsworth Professorship of American History|Harmsworth Professor of American History]] at Oxford (1998-1999) and [[Pitt Professor of American History]] at [[Cambridge]] (2011-2012). He is an honorary fellow of the [[Rothermere American Institute]] at the [[University of Oxford]]. He received the [[Jerome Levenson Teaching Prize]] in 1982 at Harvard University, where Brinkley taught for seven years; and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia in 2003. He is the chair of the board of [[the Century Foundation]] in New York, and he is the chairman of the [[National Humanities Center]] in North Carolina. He was also a trustee of [[Oxford University Press]] from 2009 to 2012, and a trustee of the [[Dalton School]]. ==Textbooks== Brinkley is the senior author of two best-selling, frequently updated American history textbooks, ''American History:A Survey'' and ''The Unfinished Nation''. They are widely used in universities and in AP high school classes. He also wrote the commonly used AP US History textbook ''American History: Connecting With The Past''. Brinkley took over sole responsibility for the ninth edition of the ''American History: A Survey'' textbook from historians [[Richard N. Current]], [[Frank Freidel]], and [[T. Harry Williams]]. He had joined the team to help with the 1979 revisions. Historian Emil Pocock, evaluating the ninth edition of 1995, said it is: :Typical of the mass market textbook....Brinkley offers a traditional narrative of American history. Built around a core of political and economic events, this attractive colored text contains a good selection of illustrations, maps, charts, and other graphics, as well as other features designed to make it stand out among the competition....This latest edition has integrated additional material on immigrants, Native Americans, African-Americans, and women into the political narrative.<ref>Peter J. Parish, ed. ''Reader's Guide to American History'' (1997) pp 692-93.</ref> ==Personal life== He lives in New York with his wife, Evangeline Morphos, and his daughter, Elly. ==Works== * ''America in the Twentieth Century'' (1960), co-authored with Frank Freidel; 5th ed. published in 1982 – used in college 20th century U.S. history classes.<ref>[https://books.google.rw/books/about/America_in_the_Twentieth_Century.html?id=0JQgAQAAIAAJ&hl=en books.google.com]</ref> * ''[[American History: A Survey]]'', originally by Richard N. Current, T. Harry Williams, and Frank Freidel (1961), by Brinkley in recent editions, reaching the 11th ed. in 1995, 13th ed. in 2009, and 15th ed. in 2015 — used especially for [[Advanced Placement United States History|AP U.S. History]] and [[IB Group 3 subjects|International Baccalaureate History]] courses.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/American_History.html?id=I4TaP7Jt3AoC books.google.com]</ref> * 1982 ''Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression'' — winner of the National Book Award<ref name=nba1983/><ref group=lower-alpha name=paper/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Voices_of_protest.html?id=f37hAAAAMAAJ books.google.com]</ref> * 1992 ''The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People'' (2 vols.). Later eds. are co-written by Harvey H. Jackson and Bradley Robert Rice.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Unfinished_Nation.html?id=9GQrAQAAIAAJ books.google.com]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Unfinished_Nation_From_1865.html?id=crftAAAAMAAJ books.google.com]</ref> * 1995 ''The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_End_of_Reform.html?id=w8_tAAAAMAAJ books.google.com]</ref> * 1998 ''Liberalism and Its Discontents''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Liberalism_and_Its_Discontents.html?id=E4vcSknZc5IC books.google.com]</ref> * 1999 ''Culture and Politics in the Great Depression''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Culture_and_Politics_in_the_Great_Depres.html?id=8hN3AAAAMAAJ books.google.com]</ref> * 2009 ''Franklin Delano Roosevelt''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Franklin_Delano_Roosevelt.html?id=g89bN5PYzpsC books.google.com]</ref> * 2010 ''The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Publisher.html?id=-G81gVvM6GAC books.google.com]</ref> * 2012 ''John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/John_F_Kennedy.html?id=qq5tLwEACAAJ books.google.com]</ref> ==Awards== * 1983 [[National Book Award]] for ''Voices of Protest''<ref name=nba1983> [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1983.html "National Book Awards – 1983"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-04-13.</ref><ref group=lower-alpha name=paper> This was the 1980 [[List of winners of the National Book Award#History|award for hardcover History]].<br />From 1980 to 1983 in [[National Book Award#History|National Book Award history]] there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories, and [[National Book Award for Nonfiction#nonfiction categories|several nonfiction subcategories]] including General Nonfiction. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including the 1983 History.</ref> * 1987 [[Joseph R. Levenson]] Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University * 2003 Great Teacher Award, Columbia University * 2006-2007 Scholarly Journal Award by Kathy Walh-Henshaw at St. Mary's Lancaster ==Notes== {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://history.columbia.edu/faculty/Brinkley.html Columbia University profile] * [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704541004575011172823798394?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5 A Time to Remember, How Henry Luce Founded a Magazine Empire That Became His Bully Pulpit, The Wall Street Journal, 17 April 2010] * [http://radio.nationalreview.com/betweenthecovers/post/?q=NTgzZGUyZjllNzA2N2YwOTA2ZWJlM2NhNDNiNDQ4NDY= Audio interview with Brinkley at National Review Online] *{{C-SPAN|Alan Brinkley}} * [http://rai.ox.ac.uk/fellows/honorary Rothermere American Institute: Distinguished Fellows of the RAI] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brinkley, Alan}} [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:20th-century American historians]] [[Category:Columbia University faculty]] [[Category:Guggenheim Fellows]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:Historians of the United States]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:National Book Award winners]] [[Category:Princeton University alumni]] [[Category:Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professors of American History]] [[Category:Writers from Washington, D.C.]]'