ALAN BRINKLEY ’67

Historian, Author, Educator

“It’s a wonderful and unexpected honor to have a lecture series named for me. It is an even greater honor that it comes from Landon, a place where I learned so much and which was so important in my life.”

Resides: New York City

Education:

• A.B., Princeton University 1971
• Ph.D., Harvard University 1979

Accomplishments:

• Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University
• Columbia University Provost
• Chair, History Department, Columbia University
• Winner of the National Book Award for Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression
• Pulitzer Prize Finalist for The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
• Author of The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession; War andLiberalism and its Discontents; Franklin D. Roosevelt; and John F. Kennedy
• Pitt Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge (2011-2012)
• Harnsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University (1998-1999)
• Winner of The Jerome Levenson Teaching Award at Harvard University
• Winner of the Great Teacher’s Award at Columbia University
• Winner of Landon’s Anthony E. Kupka ’64 Distinguished Alumnus Award (1996)

Bear Facts: At Landon, Alan was editor of the Landon News, the associate editor of the Brown and White, a member of the Cum Laude Society and a National Merit Scholar. As a graduating senior he won the Student Activities Award. In 2011, Landon introduced a new program for the Senior Class: The Alan Brinkley ’67 Lecture Series at Landon. He presented the third lecture in the series in March 2012.