Illinois farm life in the 1890s; family and neighbors; education, formal and informal; reading, the University of Illinois; Stuart Pratt Sherman, New York, N.Y. and editorial work for the NATION and EVENING POST, 1913-1918: editorial conferences, Oswald Garrison Villard, Rollo Ogden, Simeon Strunsky; social and intellectual activities: the Strunsky circle; the LITERARY REVIEW, book reviewing, Chris topher Morley; sale of the POST, 1923; NEW YORK HERALD and NEW YORK SUN: Frank Munsey; NEW YORK WORLD, 1923-31: Walter Lippmann, Claude Bowers, Herbert B. Swope; Cornell, 1927: Carl Becker; early books and the legacy of journalism experience; Columbia, 1928-58: teaching; biographies of Cleveland and Fish; Oxford, 1940-1941; for Office of War Information to Australia and New Zealand, 1942; chief public affairs officer, London, for Department of State, 1946-47; founding of Oral History Research Office, 1948-49; AMERICAN HERITAGE, 1950; business history: Hewitt, Rockefeller, Ford, and Weyerhaeuser studies; ORDEAL OF THE UNION; to California, 1958
Authors; Historians; Historiography; Journalism; Biography as a literary form; Oral history; Periodicals--Publishing; United States Intellectual life; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865; Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971; Columbia University; United States. Dept. State