Evarts Boutell Greene (1870–1947) was an American historian, born in Kobe, Japan, where his parents were missionaries.
[1] Called to Columbia University in 1923, Greene was appointed (1926) the first De Witt Clinton professor of history and held that chair until his retirement in 1939.
Greene was a noted authority on the colonial and Revolutionary periods of American history.
1953); and The Revolutionary Generation, 1763–1790 ( "History of American Life" series, Vol.
Among his students at Illinois was the historian Allan Nevins, who would succeed him as Clinton Professor at Columbia in 1939.