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Henry Steele Commager Henry Steele Commager A longtime member of the editorial advisory board of AMERICAN HERITAGE, Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) taught at New York University, Columbia, and Amherst College, and authored more than forty books.
Scholarship and Engagement: Henry Steele Commager as Historian and Public Intellectual(1). Commager collected these essays and a series of others on various aspects of history and historiography in his 1967 collection The Search for a Usable Past-- a book valuable for understanding Commager's approach to such matters.
Further Reading on Henry Steele Commager. There is an appreciation of Commager by two of his students, Harold W. Hyman and Leonard W. Levy, in Freedom and Reform: Essays in Honor of Henry Steele Commager (1967), which was published on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
Henry Steele Commager. The American Mind. Birthplace: Pittsburgh, PA Location of death: Amherst, MA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Wildwood Cemetery,. 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.
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His essays in newspapers, journals and magazines were an important part of any dialogue on the issues of his day. In 1929 Commager received the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for a first book in the field of European history. His book, The American Mind, became a classic and moved Commager into the rank of one of the top intellectual historians in.
Ten scholars noted for their studies in immigration history contribute essays to this volume. Dr. Commager surveys the course of immigration studies over the years. Oscar Handlin reappraises the role of immigration in American life. Ingrid Semmingsen, Norwegian historian, writes on the image of American in Europe.