Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager Henry Steele Commager (October 25, 1902 – March 2, 1998) was an American historian. As one of the most active and prolific liberal intellectuals of his time, with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, he helped define modern liberalism in the United States.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Commager was noted for his campaigns against McCarthyism and other abuses of government power. With his Columbia University colleague Allan Nevins, Commager helped to organize academic support for Adlai E. Stevenson in 1952 and 1956, and John F. Kennedy in 1960. He opposed the Vietnam War and was an outspoken critic of presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan and what he viewed as their abuses of presidential power.

His principal scholarly works were his 1936 biography of Theodore Parker; his intellectual history ''The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s'' (1950), which focuses on the evolution of liberalism in the American political mind from the 1880s to the 1940s, and his intellectual history ''Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment'' (1977). In addition, he edited a widely used compilation, ''Documents of American History''; ten editions were published between 1938 and 1988, the last coedited with Commager's former student, Milton Cantor. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The heritage of America / by Commager, Henry Steele

    Published 1939
    Book
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    La historia : su naturaleza, sugestiones didácticas / by Commager, Henry Steele

    Published 1967
    Book
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    El imperio de la razón : teoría y realidad del iluminismo / by Commager, Henry Steele 1902-1998

    Published 1980
    Book
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    The heritage of América : reading in American History for high schools / by Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

    Published 1935
    Book
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    America in perspective : the United States through foreign eyes / by Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

    Published 1959
    Book
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    America in perspective (abriged) : the United States through foreign eyes / by Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

    Published 1954
    Book
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    Living ideas in America / by Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

    Published 1951
    Book
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    El imperio de la razón : teoría y realidad del iluminismo / by Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

    Published 1980
    Book
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    Documentos básicos de la historia de los Estados Unidos de América /

    Published 1976
    Other Authors: “…Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998…”
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    Breve historia de los Estados Unidos : Biografía de un pueblo libre / by Nevins, Allan. 1890-1971

    Published 1963
    Other Authors: “…Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998…”
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    The Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789 / by McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham 1861-1947

    Published 1965
    Other Authors: “…Commager, Henry Steele 1902-1998…”
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    A pocket history of the United States / by Nevins, Allan 1890-1971

    Published 1964
    Other Authors: “…Commager, Henry Steele 1902-1998…”
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    America in perspective /

    Published 1947
    Other Authors: “…Commager, Henry Steele 1902-1998…”
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    The foundations of American constitutionalism / by McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham 1861-1947

    Published 1961
    Other Authors: “…Commager, Henry Steele 1902-1998…”
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    The growth of the American Republic / by Morison, Samuel Eliot 1887-1976

    Published 1958
    Other Authors: “…Commager, Henry Steele 1902-1998…”
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    America in perspective : The United States through Foreign Eyes /

    Published 1954
    Other Authors: “…Commager, Henry Steele 1902-1998…”
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    Breve historia de los Estados Unidos : biografías de un pueblo libre / by Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971

    Published 1963
    Other Authors: “…Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998…”
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    The pocket history of the United States / by Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971

    Published 1951
    Other Authors: “…Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998…”
    Book