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Avery Odelle Craven (August 12 1885 near Ackworth Iowa – January 21 1980 Chesterton Indiana) was a historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War.Craven graduated from Simpson College in 1908. He earned an M.A. from Harvard in 1914 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1923.