Henry Steele Commager Born: 25-Oct-1902 Birthplace: Pittsburgh, PA Died: 2-Mar-1998 Location of death: Amherst, MA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Wildwood Cemetery, Amherst, MA
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: The American Mind Military service: US Army (Information and Education Division, 1945) Father: James Williams Commager Mother: Anna Elizabeth Commager Wife: Evan Carroll (m. 1928, one son, two daughters) Son: Henry Steele Daughter: Nellie Thomas McColl (wife of Christopher Lasch) Daughter: Elizabeth Carroll Wife: Mary E. Powlesland (m. 1979)
University: PhB, University of Chicago (1923) University: MA, University of Chicago University: PhD, University of Chicago (1928) Professor: History, New York University (1929-38) Professor: History, Columbia University (1938-56) Professor: History, Amherst College (1956-92)
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Official Website: http://www.commager.org
Author of books:
The Growth of the American Republic (1930, history) Theodore Parker: Yankee Crusader (1936, biography) America: The Story of a Free People (1942, history) Majority Rule and Minority Rights (1943, politics) The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s (1950, intellectual history) Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954, politics) Freedom and Order: A Commentary on The American Political Scene (1966, politics) The Search for a Usable Past, and Other Essays in Historiography (1967, history) The Defeat of America: Presidential Power and the National Character (1974, politics) Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment (1975, intellectual history) The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment (1977, history)
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