Henry Steele Commager - Definition and Overview

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, (Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 1999)

External links

• Henry Steele Commager: American Public Intellectual (http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/commager.html)
• Henry Steele Commager Dies At Age 95 (http://www.amherst.edu/~astudent/1997-1998/issue019/n-steele.html)
• Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) (http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/fallwinter99/features/commager.html)