Henry Steele Commager

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#78

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#185

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#33

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Henry Steele Commager's Degrees

PhD History University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Henry Steele Commager 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.

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Henry Steele Commager's Published Works

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Published Works

The Growth of the American Republic (1938) (136)
Documents of American history (1935) (124)
The American Mind (1950) (96)
The American mind : an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880's (1950) (90)
The Commonwealth of Learning (1988) (47)
A pocket history of the United States (1934) (32)
The search for a usable past, and other essays in historiography (1967) (26)
A short history of the United States (1956) (24)
The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told By Participants (1967) (24)
Majority rule and minority rights (1943) (21)
A Concise History of the American Republic (1977) (20)
Virgil: A Collection of Critical Essays (1966) (20)
Jefferson, nationalism, and the enlightenment (1976) (19)
The nature and the study of history. (1965) (17)
The high school in a new era (1958) (17)
The University and Freedom: “Lehrfreiheit” and “Lehrnfreiheit” (1963) (15)
The Lost war: Letters from British officers during the American Revolution (1975) (12)
AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES (1949) (12)
The blue and the gray : the story of the Civil War as told by participants (1950) (12)
Thomas B. Reed, parliamentarian (1931) (11)
The Civil War archive : the history of the Civil War in documents (2000) (10)
America: The story of a free people (1942) (10)
Mechanism of action of phenolic disinfectants. VI. Effects on glucose and succinate metabolism of Escherichia coli. (1965) (10)
The Spirit Of 'Seventy-Six (1958) (9)
The meaning of the Constitution (1974) (9)
Living ideas in America (1952) (9)
The study and teaching of history (1980) (9)
Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1995) (9)
The Dilemma of Theodore Parker (1933) (8)
Commager on Tocqueville (1993) (8)
The Blasphemy of Abner Kneeland (1935) (7)
Theodore Parker : an anthology (1960) (6)
A Historian Looks at the American High School (1958) (6)
The era of reform, 1830-1860 (1960) (5)
The People And Their Schools (1976) (5)
The origins and nature of American nationalism (1959) (5)
The St. Nicholas anthology (1948) (5)
America in perspective : the United States through foreign eyes (1948) (5)
The Development of a Revolutionary Mentality (1974) (5)
The Secret Government : The Constitution in Crisis (1988) (5)
Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954) (5)
The Study Of History (1966) (4)
The Pocket History of the Second World War (1950) (4)
Leadership in Eighteenth-Century America and Today (1962) (4)
Britain through American eyes (1974) (4)
Civil liberties under attack (1951) (4)
The Imaginative Mind in Art (1964) (4)
Solon and Croesus (4)
The Story of the Second World War (1998) (3)
The building of our Nation (1948) (3)
Freedom and reform : essays in honor of Henry Steele Commager (1968) (3)
The Defeat of America: Presidential Power and the National Character (1975) (3)
The Civil War: Day by Day (1989) (3)
The School as Surrogate Conscience. (1975) (3)
The Blue and the Gray (1982) (3)
Freedom and Order: A Commentary on the American Political Scene (1966) (3)
The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Edited by RALPH L. RUSK, Professor of English in Columbia University. Six volumes. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1939. Pp. lxvi, 458; 471; 462; 541; 546; 633. $30.00.) (1940) (2)
Noah Webster's American spelling book (1962) (2)
The Crisis of the Academic Library. (1969) (2)
Years of the Modern: An American Appraisal (1950) (2)
Science, Nationalism, and the Academy. (1985) (1)
Imagination in Psychology: Some Needed Steps (1964) (1)
The West: an illustrated history (1976) (1)
Who is Loyal to America? [1947] (1949) (1)
The Journals of David E. Lilienthal. Vol. I: The TVA years, 1939-1945. Vol. II: The Atomic Energy Years, 1945-1950. (1965) (1)
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin & selections from his writings (1944) (1)
The Future of History and History Teaching (1983) (1)
Immigration and American History: Essays in Honor of Theodore C. Blegen (1962) (1)
Selected writings of William Dean Howells (1950) (1)
The struggle for racial equality : a documentary record (1967) (1)
The Imaginative Mind in Science (1964) (1)
Constitutional History and the Higher Law (1938) (1)
Karl Loewenstein (1974) (1)
American in Perspective (1949) (1)
Ideas and the American Enlightenment@@@The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment@@@The Democratic Enlightenment@@@The Enlightenment in America (1978) (1)
Chronicles of the American revolution (1965) (1)
Only the National Government... (1973) (1)
The Westward Movement: A Book of Readings on our Changing Frontiers (1940) (0)
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society: LXIII, October, 1929 — June, 1930@@@Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society: LXIII, October, 1929 -- June, 1930 (1932) (0)
Education for American freedom (1954) (0)
Public Responsibility and the Educational Enterprise. (1975) (0)
Documents of American history, Vol. 3 (1946) (0)
Europe and America since 1492 : Western civilization and its world influence (1954) (0)
One hundred years of famous pages from the New York times, 1851-1951 (1951) (0)
America's Robert E. Lee (1951) (0)
Freedom and Order: A Commentary on the American Political Scene. (1967) (0)
What's happening to society? (1972) (0)
Education in a Free Society (1960) (0)
The American people (1971) (0)
Fifty basic civil war documents (1982) (0)
The great proclamation : a book for young Americans (1958) (0)
A limit to presidential power (1968) (0)
The American mind : 19th & 20th centuries (1958) (0)
The Era of Reform, 1830-1860: Documents (1982) (0)
The Right of Dissent (1955) (0)
A picture history of the United States of America (1958) (0)
Reflections on American institutions : selections from The American Commonwealth (1961) (0)
The People and Their Schools. Fastback 79. Bicentennial Series. (1976) (0)
Education and the International Community. (1970) (0)
A South Carolina Dictator (1936) (0)
The great Constitution : a book for young Americans (1961) (0)
The Pursuit of Happiness (1965) (0)
Commager's the American Mind: A Reconsideration@@@The American Mind. (1984) (0)
The Conscience of a Liberal: Selected Writings and Speeches (1962) (0)
Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent@@@The Web of Subversion (1954) (0)
Henry Adams (1927) (0)
The Different World of Television and Computers. (1982) (0)
Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society: October, 1930-June, 1932 (1933) (0)
The Reconciliation of Liberty and Order (1945) (0)
McCarthyism, Communism, Intellectual Freedom (1954) (0)
Machiavelli in the New World (1983) (0)
Imagination and the Curriculum: Some Harvard Impressions (1964) (0)
Portrait of the American & other essays (1962) (0)
College readings in America (1968) (0)
" A Historian Looks at the American High School," Henry Steele Commager [1958] (1983) (0)
Imagination in Politics (1964) (0)
The second St. Nicholas anthology (1950) (0)
William Dean Howells: Representative Selections.@@@Selected Writings of William Dean Howells. (1951) (0)
Watergate and the Schools. (1974) (0)
The heritage of America (1939) (0)
Meet the U.S.A : Including a practical guide for academic visitors to the United States (1970) (0)
The rights of women (1972) (0)
Problems of the University Library. (1970) (0)
The Nomination of Lincoln to the Eve of Gettysburg (1994) (0)
Tempest in a Boston Tea Cup (1933) (0)
Essays in Honor of Theodore C. Blegen@@@Immigration and American History. (1962) (0)
A Declaration of Interdependence (1976) (0)
Of Virtue & Foreign Policy (1982) (0)
Of America, East & West (1984) (0)
Private Sin and Public Sin (1984) (0)
The American Spirit: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler (1994) (0)
The Americanization of History. (1969) (0)
Treasury of best-loved stories, poems, games, and riddles from St. Nicholas magazine (1984) (0)
Reviews of current books (1950) (0)

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