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Robert Vincent Remini (July 17, 1921 – March 28, 2013) was an American historian and a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.〔(UIC History department ). Retrieved 2010-06-08.〕 He wrote numerous works about President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Era. For the third volume of ''Andrew Jackson'', subtitled ''The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845'', he won the 1984 U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.〔 ("National Book Awards – 1984" ). National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-24.〕 He wrote biographies of Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Martin van Buren, Joseph Smith and Daniel Webster. ==Life== Remini was born in 1921 in New York City. During World War II, he served in the Navy.〔"Robert Vincent Remini". ''Contemporary Authors Online''. July 16, 2009. Retrieved 2010-06-08.〕 Remini received his B.S. from Fordham University in 1943 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University (1947 and 1951, respectively). He was professor of history emeritus and research professor of humanities emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Remini joined the UIC faculty in 1965 and was the school’s first chairman of the history department.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wtop.com/1232/3270589/UIC-professor-emeritus-Robert-Remini-dies-at-91 )〕 He later founded the UIC Institute for the Humanities, which he chaired from 1981 to 1987.〔((http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-05/news/ct-met-remini-obit-20130405_1_house-historian-kearns-goodwin-u-s-house))〕 In 1997, Remini won the D.B. Hardeman Prize for his book ''Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lbjlibrary.org/page/foundation/initiatives/recipients-of-the-d-b-hardeman-prize )〕 On April 28, 2005, Remini was appointed the Historian of the United States House of Representatives, a post he held until 2010. Earlier, Remini had been asked by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington to write a Congressional history, ''The House'', which was published in 2006.〔((http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/robert-remini-andrew-jackson-scholar-and-former-house-historian-dies-at-age-91/2013/04/06/378c87e4-9e7a-11e2-9219-51eb8387e8f1_story.html))〕 He retired in 2010 and was succeeded by Matthew Wasniewski. His last work was ''At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union'' (2010). Remini married Ruth T. Kuhner in 1948 and they had three children. He died at Evanston Hospital Evanston, Illinois in 2013 after a stroke. He was 91.〔(). Retrieved 2013-04-02.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert V. Remini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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