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Alan Brinkley (born June 2, 1949 in Washington, D.C.) is an American historian who has taught for over 20 years at Columbia University. He is currently the Allan Nevins Professor of History. In 2003-2009 he was University Provost. ==Life and career== 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 ABC.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/12/obituaries/12CND-BRINK.html?pagewanted=all〕 Brinkley was an undergraduate at Princeton University, and received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1979. 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),〔〔 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). He is also the author of two American history textbooks, ''American History'' and ''The Unfinished Nation'', which are widely used in colleges and AP high school classes. His essay "The Problem of American Conservatism," published in the ''American Historical Review'' in 1994 helped bring the growing conservative movement to the attention of scholars. He is one of three American historians to have been both Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford (1998–99) 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. He lives in New York with his wife Evangeline Morphos and his daughter Elly. 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「Alan Brinkley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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