Henry Steele Commager
Henry Steele Commager (
October 25,
1902 -
March 2,
1998) was a noted
American historian who wrote (or edited) over forty books and over 700 journalistic essays and reviews, and taught at
New York University,
Columbia, and
Amherst College. He was an outspoken defender of
civil liberties and fought against
McCarthyism as well as the
Vietnam War.
Selected list of books
- The Growth of the American Republic (with Samuel Eliot Morison, 1930 et al.)
- Documents of American History (1934 et al.)
- Readings in American History (with Allan Nevins, 1939)
- The American Mind (1950)
- The American Character (1970)
- A Concise History of the American Republic (with Samuel Eliot Morison and William E. Leuchtenberg, 1976)
- Commager on Tocqueville (1993)
Reference
- Neil Jumonville, Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present (Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
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