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	Henry Steele Commager
		Commager, who was born on 25 October 1902 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,worked his way through the University of Chicago, earning the B.A.,M.A., and Ph.D. degrees by the time he was 28.
		Commager was an ardent defender of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, courageously opposing McCarthyism in the 1940s and 1950s and the Vietnam Conflict (on constitutional grounds) before it was fashionable to do so, and combating the rampant illegalities and unconstitutionalities perpetrated by the administration of Richard Nixon.
		Commager once said about teaching, "What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness." He was talking about historical figures, but his dictum applies equally well to his own life and career.
	www.commager.org (455 words)

	Amazon.de: English Books: Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Steele Commager (190298) was a classic 20th-century liberala robust champion of civil liberties, dissent, and intellectual freedom.
		According to Jumonville: "Commager as a popularizer was not a major influence on the direction taken by intellectual historians." Although Commager aspired to recognition for a high level of scholarship, "he was not a research scholar." Commager preferred anecdotes, biographical sketches, and narrative over searching analysis.
		Commager believed that "history is a branch of literature," and even critics of the substance of his oeuvre tended to admire his style.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0807824488 (1686 words)

	H-Law \| Reviews
		Indeed, as Jumonville acknowledges, Commager is notable precisely because he scorned gaps separating professional and general audiences and rejected the idea that a historian had to choose between cloistered pursuit of scholarship and vigorous, even polemical discourse in the public realm.
		With these documentary anthologies, Commager not only set standards of rigor and usefulness that are models of their kind, but also helped to shape the teaching and study of American history for generations of teachers and students.
		For another, as already noted, Commager would have insisted both that his work as a historian informed his engagement with contemporary political affairs, and that his engagement with the politics of his day inspired his most creative and effective explorations and interpretations of the American past.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~law/reviews/jumonvillen.htm (2469 words)

	JAH review of Commager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Commager was born in Pittsburgh but was raised primarily in Chicago by his maternal grandfather, a Lutheran pastor and ardent Danish nationalist.
		Commager's University of Chicago dissertation on the Danish Enlightenment figure Johann Friedrich Stuense won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in 1929.
		At the height of his influence, Commager was an intellectual in New York, although never one of the "New York intellectuals." ("Did they pay?" a puzzled Commager replied when Jumonville asked why he had never written for Partisan Review.) He wrote for daily papers, lectured widely, and was immersed in concerns of the present.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~njumonvi/JAH-HSC.htm (460 words)

	NPR's All Things Considered on Commager
		Commager was the co-author of "The Growth of The American Republic," a standard textbook used from the 1930s through the 1960s.
		Commager was somebody who was probably the most insistent academic voice against McCarthyism in the 1950s, was an early and strong critic of the Vietnam War and American power misused abroad, a critic of Watergate early on.
		And so if Commager is going to depend on his scholarship to keep him remembered, he's going to be in that same sort of condition that George Bancroft and Francis Parkman and all of our great figures have been.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~njumonvi/rev-hsc2.htm (773 words)

	The UNC Press, Henry Steele Commager by Neil Jumonville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century.
		But Commager's work was by no means confined to the halls of the university: a popular essayist, lecturer, and political commentator, he earned a reputation as an activist for liberal causes and waged public campaigns against McCarthyism in the 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s.
		After considering whether Commager and his associates were really the conservative and conformist group that critics have assumed them to be, Jumonville offers a reevaluation of the liberalism of the period.
	uncpress.unc.edu /books/T-1484.html (254 words)

	Amherst College : News & Events : Amherst Magazine
		Commager himself was a victim of McCarthyite absurdity as late as 1959, when William F. Buckley Jr.
		The rejection of Commager's style of 1950s intellectual history and American studies by a younger cohort was part of a generational disagreement between acutely different visions of American culture and society.
		Commager and the older American studies figures were at least as politically radical and activist as their younger counterparts have turned out to be.
	www.amherst.edu /magazine/issues/99to01/authors_99to01/au_spr99.html (1954 words)

	Powell's Books - The story of World War II by Henry Steele Commager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In late 1945, Henry Steele Commager finished a history of World War II that he had begun writing even while the fighting raged.
		Commager had worked as a propagandist and historian for the U.S. Department of War, and in his book he collected eyewitness descriptions of the fighting by outstanding correspondents, including Ernie Pyle, John Steinbeck, and Martha Gellhorn.
		Miller shares Commager's conviction that World War II was a war of good against evil, but, as he says, it "was more than a heroic crusade; it was a tragic and complex human experience." Mixed in with valor was cruelty; mixed with heroism was cowardice; and everywhere there was death and suffering.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=6-0743211987-0 (933 words)

	Henry Steele Commager Biography / Biography of Henry Steele Commager Main Biography
		Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was an American historian who achieved much fame as a textbook author and as an editor of books of documents.
		Henry Steele Commager was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 25, 1902, the son of James Williams and Anne Elizabeth (Dan) Commager.
		Commager matriculated at the University of Chicago, earning three degrees in history, a Ph.B. in 1923, an A.M. in 1924, and a Ph.D. in 1928.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-henry-steele-commager (255 words)

	Commager, Henry Steele -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the early decades of the 20th century, Wilbur Daniel Steele was one of the most prolific and popular writers of fiction in the United States.
		Steele was a controversial figure among fl leaders, some of whom felt that his criticisms of such policies as affirmative action were harmful to African Americans.
		One of the first great American scientists after Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Henry was responsible for numerous inventions and discovered several major principles of electromagnetism, including the oscillatory nature of electric discharge and self-inductance, an important phenomenon in electronic circuitry.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310794?tocId=9310794 (672 words)

	Historian/Author Henry Steele Commager dead at 95
		Commager, who died at his home in Amherst, wrote a body of works spanning much of this nation's history.
		Commager wrote as much for the popular press as for the scholarly journals.
		Commager collaborated with Allan Nevins on the 10th edition published in 1987.
	www.recordonline.com /1998/03/03-03-98/comobi.htm (183 words)

	Commager:Research in Review
		Henry Steele Commager, who died in 1998 at age 95, stood with a generation of mostly male, unfailingly white, 20th-century scholar-activists who mounted the public stump to rail against what they saw as threats to their optimistic assessment.
		In Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present (The University of North Carolina Press, 1999), Jumonville makes a case for the lessons still to be learned from Commager and his peers.
		Ironically, Jumonville says, those who write off Commager and his colleagues as a bunch of conservative, irrelevant, dead white males are actually far less politically active and probably less "liberal" than they were.
	www.research.fsu.edu /ResearchR/fallwinter99/features/commager.html (1237 words)

	Henry Steele Commager Dies At Age 95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Commager came to Amherst in 1956 from Columbia University and taught at the College for 36 years.
		Commager was a fellow at Peterhouse in Cambridge, England.
		Commager is survived by his wife, daughters Nell and Lisa, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
	www.amherst.edu /~astudent/1997-1998/issue019/n-steele.html (390 words)

	Henry Steele Commager, American Public Intellectual
		Although Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) is remembered chiefly as a prolific American historian who taught at New York University, Columbia, and Amherst College, he also lived a notable public life outside the gates of scholarship.
		Commager believed that it was his responsibility, whether by writing in magazines or standing at a podium, to address what his friend Nevins called that "one democratic public—the public to which Emerson and Lincoln spoke."
		Commager fought against McCarthyism and the Vietnam War, and battled to protect intellectual freedom and a common democratic culture.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/commager.html (2648 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Commager Henry Steele (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Commager, Henry Steele (1902-1998), American historian and educator, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 25, 1902, and educated at the...
		Traditional views of American history were presented by historians Charles Austin Beard and Mary Ritter Beard in The Rise of American Civilization...
		Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729), English essayist, playwright, and statesman, who founded and contributed frequently to the influential 18th-century...
	encarta.msn.com /Commager_Henry_Steele.html (132 words)

	Powell's Books - The Story of the Second World War (History of War) by Henry Steele Commager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Steele Commager's The Story of the Second World War, compiled in the war's immediate aftermath, became an instant classic.
		Commager has presented a broad spectrum of contemporary writing about the war by such figures as Winston Churchill, John Steinbeck, Walter Lippman, John Hersey, and William Shirer.
		These accounts are augmented by commentary by Commager (1902-1998), a professor of history at Columbia University and Amherst College.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=1574887416 (267 words)

	Lafayette History Professor Donald L. Miller Publishes Revised and Expanded Edition of Henry Steele Commager's Classic ...
		Miller places the personal accounts of soldiers, sailors, airmen, nurses, and war correspondents in a historical context that was unavailable to Commager as he wrote in the heat of the conflict.
		Commager wrote The Story of the Second World War while he was working as a public information officer for the War Department in London, Paris, and Washington.
		Founded in 1940, the Peabody Award is administered by the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, and is considered by many to be the most prestigious recognition of excellence in broadcasting and cable.
	www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/888 (2426 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Magazine
		A FEW YEARS AGO, writing in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, the distinguished historian Henry Steele Commager charged that while civil-military relations had been healthy during most of the nation’s history, the relationship had suddenly taken a turn for the worse.
		Something close to “reverse principles” now governed our thinking, and the official line now held “that the military should never be challenged, that it is not the business of people to inquire into or to challenge what the military does, [and] that it is proper for the military to make wars on its own.
		Commager’s remarks demonstrate that today’s officers as well will feel the sting of severe judgments, which sometimes come in waves or cycles.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1983/2/1983_2_104.shtml (1298 words)

	The New York Review of Books: AMNESTY
		I gather Professor Commager calls for universal amnesty for all evaders, deserters, and (although never directly mentioned) those of us who did not flee and stood against the war in the courts and have thus suffered the consequences of imprisonment.
		This is not so much an attack on Professor Commager's fine essay as it is a question of why it is that now for the first time amnesty is being discussed as a matter deserving of serious attention.
		Finally, Professor Commager's essay seems to give one the impression that the nation is governed by an enlightened President and Congress.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/10153 (1185 words)

	Henry Steele Commager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Commager on Tocqueville (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993)
		Neil Jumonville, Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
		This page was last modified 23:38, 10 July 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Steele_Commager (220 words)

	OBIT: Henry Steele Commager, 1902-1998
		Henry Steele Commager, formerly John Woodruff Simpson Lecturer in
		Commager, who was born on 25 October 1902 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
		Commager was an ardent defender of the Constitution and the Bill of
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~shear/thread/obit_henry_steele_commager_1902_1998.htm (565 words)

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	Time: Died, Henry Steele Commager. (historian)(Brief Article)(Obituary)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, 95, pre-eminent chronicler of American history and ardent defender of the Constitution upon which the country was founded; in Amherst, Mass.
		For close to 70 years, Commager's essays, books and meditations probed the nation's politics and psyche.
		A teacher for 65 years, Commager wrote books that served as lucid primers for...
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	Alibris: Henry Steele Commager
		This expansion and update of a classic written just after the war by historian Henry Steele Commager includes much new material in the spirit of the original.
		Written with wit and panache by a brilliant scholar and specialist in the colonial era, it covers such topics as the colonies' agrarian society and leadership;...
		Drawing on hundreds of previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, this sweeping narrative history covers the entire war and includes new material on the fighting in the Pacific, the dropping of the atomic bomb, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Henry_Steele_Commager (778 words)

	Commager on Tocqueville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Henry Steele Commager's brilliant new interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America' offers this astute comment: 'He had an instinct for the jugular vein in history.'
		"The same can be said for Dr. Commager, the author of major works on the American mind and dream and now professor emeritus of history at Amherst College.
		For in 'Commager on Tocqueville,' our premier historian allows the reader to see America today through the critical vision of Commager on Commager.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/otherbooks/commager.htm (152 words)

	Current History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The magazine has no institutional, political, or governmental affiliations, and is privately owned.
		Past contributors to Current History have included George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill, Charles Beard, and Henry Steele Commager.
		In more recent years, it has featured names like James Schlesinger, Marshall Goldman, Peter Arnett, and Francis Fukuyama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Current_History (117 words)

	AllRefer.com - Henry Steele Commager (Historians, U.S., Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Henry Steele Commager[kom´ijur] Pronunciation Key, 1902–98, American historian, b.
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	Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present
		Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-98) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century.
		But Commager's work was by no means confined to the halls of the university: a popular essayist, lecturer, and political commentator, he earned a reputation as an activist for liberal causes and waged...
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