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(1902-1998) Writer. Henry Steele Commager was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Full Name

Henry Steele Commager

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1902

BIRTH

Henry Steele Commager was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 25, 1902.

1926

OTHER

Henry Steele Commager taught at New York University from 1926 to 1938.

1930

LITWORK

The Growth of the American Republic
Oxford University Press

History, co-authored with Samuel Eliot Morison and William E. Leuchtenburg.

1934

LITWORK

Documents of American History
F S Crofts & Company Publishers.

History, co-edited with Milton Cantor.

1936

LITWORK

Theodore Parker
Little, Brown, and Company

Biography.

1938

OTHER

Henry Steele Commager taught at Columbia University from 1938 to 1956.

1939

LITWORK

The Heritage of America
Little, Brown and Company

History, edited with Allan Nevins.

1942

LITWORK

America: The Story of a Free People
Little, Brown and Company

0198730187 / 978-0198730187
History, written with Allan Nevins.

1943

LITWORK

Majority Rule and Minority Rights
Oxford University Press

Nonfiction.

1945

LITWORK

The Story of the Second World War
Little, Brown and Company

History.

1950

LITWORK

The American Mind
Yale University Press
0300003773 / 978-0300003772
Nonfiction.

1950

LITWORK

The Blue and the Grey
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

History, edited by Henry Steele Commager.

1954

LITWORK

Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent
Oxford University Press
0195005104 / 978-0195005103
Nonfiction.

1998

DEATH

Henry Steele Commager died at his home in Amherst, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1998.

1998

INTERMENT

Henry Steele Commager was interred at Wildwood Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.

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