Avery Craven | |
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| Born | August 12, 1885 |
| Died | January 21, 1980 (aged 94) Chesterton, Indiana, United States |
| Alma mater | Simpson College (B.A., 1908); Harvard University (M.A., 1914) University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1923) |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar, historian, author, professor |
| Honors | President of the Organization of American Historians (1963-1964) |
Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 – January 21, 1980) was an American historian who wrote extensively about the nineteenth-century United States, the American Civil War and Congressional Reconstruction from a then-revisionist viewpoint sympathetic to the Lost Cause as well as democratic failings during his own lifetime.