The Spirit Of Seventy-six by Henry Steele Commager

In 1979, Commager married Mary Powlesland, a professor in Latin American studies, in Linton, England.Ĭommager died of pneumonia at the age of ninety-five on March 2, 1998, in Amherst. Evan Commager wrote several books, including Cousins, Tenth Birthday, Beaux, and Valentine. (1932–1984), known as Steele Commager, who became a classicist at Columbia University and wrote one of the leading books on the Roman poet Horace Elizabeth Carroll Commager and Nellie Thomas McColl Commager (now Nell Lasch, wife of the historian Christopher Lasch). The couple had three children: Henry Steele Commager Jr.

Ĭommager married Evan Alexa Carroll (died 1968) of South Carolina in 1928. He lived in Copenhagen for a year researching his dissertation on the political reform movement in Denmark led by Johann Friedrich Struensee. He attended the University of Chicago and earned degrees in history: Bachelor of Philosophy (1923), Master of Arts (1924), and Doctor of Philosophy (1928). After his mother died when he was ten, he was raised by his maternal grandfather in Chicago, Illinois. In addition, he edited a widely used compilation, Documents of American History ten editions were published between 19, the last coedited with Commager's former student, Milton Cantor.Ĭommager was born Henry Irving Commager on October 25, 1902, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of James Williams and Anne Elizabeth (Dan) Commager. 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). Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan and what he viewed as their abuses of presidential power. He opposed the Vietnam War and was an outspoken critic of Presidents Lyndon B. With his Columbia University colleague Allan Nevins, Commager helped to organize academic support for Adlai E. In the 1940s and 1950s, Commager was noted for his campaigns against McCarthyism and other abuses of government power. 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.

Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) was an American historian.

Documents of American History (1938–1988).

The Spirit Of Seventy-six by Henry Steele Commager