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Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He occurs as progressive historiographer of the New Deal. Brinkley writes regularly around magazines like Newsweek and The New Republic and is a heavy advocate for progressive issues.

Career
1971 B.The. from either Princeton University

1979 Ph.D. from either Harvard University

1991 prof of American History at Columbia University

1998–1999, Harmsworth Prof of Western History at Oxford University

1999-2003 academic, a Century Institute

2000-2003 history dept chair

University Provost

Works
1982 Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & a Awesome Depression 1992 The Bare United states: A Concise History of the Western People 1995 A Prevent of Reform: Just released Treat Liberalism inside Recession & War 1998 Liberalism & Its Discontents

Brinkley has too written many text edition which are then utilized by college & high school U.S. history classes.

Awards received
1983 National Book Award for Voices of Protest 1987 Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize

The End of Reform
An AP US History study guide to Alan Brinkley's book on New Deal liberalism in recession and war, summarizing the main ideas in each chapter.

The New Republic: Autumn of the Agitator
A book review by Brinkley following the public and personal life of W.E.B. DuBois.

News Hour: Alan Brinkley
Transcript of a PBS interview with Brinkley on the populism of Patrick Buchanan.

First Measured Century: Alan Brinkley
Interview for the PBS documentary, focusing on the change in American culture brought about by the 1920s, the Great Depression, and the New Deal.