Commager, Henry Steele 1902-1998

Overview

Works:	950 works in 4,269 publications in 9 languages and 94,803 library holdings
Genres:	History Sources Personal narratives Bibliographies Festschriften Conference papers and proceedings Documentary films Nonfiction films Biographies Interviews
Roles:	Author, Editor, Author of introduction, Other, Speaker, Interviewee, Annotator, Compiler, Bibliographic antecedent, Contributor, Correspondent, pre
Classifications:	E178, 973

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Henry Steele Commager

Henry Steele Commager : midcentury liberalism and the history of the present by Neil Jumonville( )
Henry Steele Commager by Henry Steele Commager( Visual )
American heritage : February, 1970, vol. XXI, no. 2( )
Henry Steele Commager : (1902-1998)( )
Henry Steele Commager: American historian and educator, Oct. 25, 1902-( Visual )

Joseph Barnes papers by Joseph Barnes( )
Evarts Boutell Greene papers by Evarts Boutell Greene( )
Anson Phelps Stokes family papers by Anson Phelps Stokes( )
John B. Oakes papers by John B Oakes( )
The Leonard Burkat papers by Leonard Burkat( )
Istorija Sjedinjenih američkih država by Allan Nevins( Book )
Allan Nevins papers by Allan Nevins( )
Eric Frederick Goldman papers by Eric Frederick Goldman( )
Wallace Notestein papers by Wallace Notestein( )
by Mary E Dreier( )
Commager Papers by Henry Steele Commager( )
Max Lerner papers by Max Lerner( )
by Henry Savage( )
Millicent Todd Bingham papers by Millicent Todd Bingham( )
Chester Bowles papers by Chester Bowles( )

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Most widely held works by Henry Steele Commager

Documents of American history by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

290 editions published between 1934 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 9,151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains documents relating to American history from 1492 to 1962

The growth of the American Republic by Samuel Eliot Morison( Book )

224 editions published between 1920 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 5,217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Over fifty years after its original publication, this classic work in American history is in its seventh edition. In a clear, vigorous style, its celebrated authors present the rich and complex narrative of America's experience in an account that extends from the pre-Columbian age to 1877 in Volume I, and in Volume II from 1877 to the present. Expertly revised to bring the study fully up to date, it reflects new insights derived from significant modern research."--Publisher description

The Blue and the Gray : the story of the Civil War as told by participants by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

84 editions published between 1950 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,701 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For other editions, see Author Catalog

The spirit of 'seventy-six : the story of the American Revolution as told by participants by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

56 editions published between 1925 and 2002 in English and held by 3,476 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? asked John Adams in 1815. Renowned scholars Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris have provided a prudent, perceptive answer--the participants themselves--and in the process have fashioned from the vast source material a thrilling chronological narrative. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six allows readers to experience events long-entombed in textbooks as they unfold for the first time for both Loyalists and Patriots: the Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, and more. In letters, journals, diaries, official documents, and personal recollections, the timeless figures of the Revolution emerge in all their human splendor and folly to stand beside the nameless soldiers. Profusely illustrated and enhanced by cogent commentary, this book examines every aspect of the war, including the Loyalist and British views; treason and prison escapes; songs and ballads; the home front and diplomacy abroad. In short, the editors have wrought a balanced, sweeping, and compelling documentary history

The American mind : an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880's by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

133 editions published between 1950 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,043 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On the premise that there is a keen distinctiveness about American thought, character and conduct, assays the conditions that have brought about the democratic way

Living ideas in America by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

51 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, William Barret Travis, William F.G. Shanks, George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, E.W. Wynkoop, Finley Peter Dunne, William Vaughn Moody, Henry L. Stimson and McGeorge Bundy, Eugene V. Rostow, William James, James Monroe, James K. Polk, Alfred Mahan, William McKinley, John Hay, Albert J. Beveridge, Winston Churchill, Bernard Baruch, George Washington Cable, Frederick Douglass, Henry Billings Brown, John Marshall Harlan, Earl Warren, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Martin Luther King Jr., William Douglas, William Peters, Tom Clark, and John F. Kennedy

The empire of reason : how Europe imagined and America realized the enlightenment by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

58 editions published between 1977 and 2000 in English and held by 2,294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A short history of the United States by Allan Nevins( Book )

80 editions published between 1942 and 1984 in 5 languages and held by 2,186 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Freedom, loyalty, dissent by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

38 editions published between 1954 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,700 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Theodore Parker by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

54 editions published between 1936 and 1982 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,613 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Henry Steele Commager's the story of the Second World War by Henry Steele Commager( )

17 editions published between 1991 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,604 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A comprehensive account of the war in the words of firsthand observers woven together with Commager's own analysis

A concise history of the American Republic by Samuel Eliot Morison( Book )

55 editions published between 1977 and 1983 in English and held by 1,532 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thorough in its analysis and interpretative in treatment, this authoritative narrative presents American history from the Native Americans' Siberian forebears to the economic conflicts of the Carter and Reagan Administrations. Covering the full range of American experience -- economic and social, literary and spiritual, political and military -- the authors offer incisive analysis of the American party system, the Cold War, unemployment, environmental problems, Middle Eastern conflicts, the energy crisis, relations with China and issues surrounding various elections. They also record major social, political and economic policies and trends that have affected women and minority groups. ISBN 0-19-503180-6 : $17.95

Freedom and order : a commentary on the American political scene by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

27 editions published between 1966 and 2014 in English and held by 1,494 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The search for a usable past, and other essays in historiography by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

21 editions published between 1967 and 2015 in English and held by 1,491 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The heritage of America by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

50 editions published between 1939 and 1951 in English and held by 1,432 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First hand narratives of American life from Leif Ericson to World War II

Majority rule and minority rights by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

50 editions published between 1943 and 2015 in English and German and held by 1,422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A pocket history of the United States by Allan Nevins( Book )

171 editions published between 1942 and 1994 in 5 languages and held by 1,402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Also published by Little Brown & Company ... under the title America: the story of a free people.""1st printing December, 1942."

Immigration and American history : essays in honor of Theodore C. Blegen by University of Minnesota( Book )

28 editions published between 1961 and 1962 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Based on a conference at the University of Minnesota, Jan. 29-30, 1960

Jefferson, nationalism, and the enlightenment by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

20 editions published between 1974 and 2015 in English and held by 1,326 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

History should not be written with one eye cocked on the passing scene. These essays, written over a period of years, were not designed as current commentary; they attempt, rather, to recreate and if possible illuminate the American past in its own terms. But an introduction may be indulged in greater latitude than the essays themselves, for it is an amiable literary fiction that introductions are prefatory rather than conclusive. Here, then, I can ask more explicitly questions the essays themselves merely suggest

The era of reform, 1830-1860 by Henry Steele Commager( Book )

30 editions published between 1960 and 1982 in English and held by 1,292 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book, introduced by one of our foremost historians, communicates the passionate spirit of a tempestuous age, an era of reform unlike any other in our history. The spirit of reform pervaded the atmosphere in the 30 years before the Civil War, the age of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Parker, Horace Mann, William Lloyd Garrison, and William Ellery Channing. The 55 documents included here begin with a letter from Thomas Jefferson at the end of his life (1826) and conclude with writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Greeley

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