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1085:, and a former student of Commager, corresponded with Morison and Commager at the time, in an effort to get them to change their textbook; he reported that Morison "just didn't get it" and in particular did not understand the negative effects that the Sambo stereotype was having on young impressionable students. On the other hand, Meier found that Commager, although at first woefully unaware of black history, was openminded on the subject and willing to learn and change. Morison did not agree to remove Sambo until the fifth edition, which appeared in 1962. 1048:, first published in 1930. (Although Morison was responsible for the textbook's controversial section on slavery and references to the slave as "Sambo", and Commager was the junior member of the writing team when the book was first published and always deferred to Morison's greater age and academic stature, Commager has not been spared from charges of racism in this matter.) The textbook was attacked for its uncritical depiction of slavery in America and its depiction of African-American life after emancipation and during 2902: 855: 759:. Commager's biographer Neil Jumonville has argued that this style of influential public history has been lost in the 21st century, because political correctness has rejected Commager's open marketplace of tough ideas. Jumonville says history now features abstruse deconstruction by experts, with statistics instead of stories, and is comprehensible now only to the initiated, with ethnocentrism ruling in place of common identity. 1066:, relying on the one-sided personal records of slaveowners and portraying slavery as a mainly benign institution. As the historian Herbert Gutman said, this scholarship focused on the question: "What did slavery do for the slave?" Its answer was that slavery lifted the slaves out of the barbarism of Africa, Christianized them, protected them, and generally benefited them. In 1944, the 739:. Although he was skilled at scholarly research and analysis, he preferred to devise and expound sweeping interpretations of historical events and processes, while also making available primary sources so that people could study history for themselves. Commager was representative of a generation of like-minded historians widely read by the general public, including 44: 1078:, which he claimed were vital in understanding the racist nature of American culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an era when even the most enlightened progressive thinkers routinely explained many aspects of human behavior as being a result of innate racial or ethnic characteristics. 690:
With Richard B. Morris, he also co-edited the highly influential New American Nation Series, a multi-volume collaborative history of the United States under whose aegis appeared many significant and prize-winning works of historical scholarship. (This series was a successor to the American Nation
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Commager's lifelong advocacy of intellectual freedom, popular knowledge, and the historical interpretation of contemporary issues has had long-lasting influence on scholars and public advocates, though over the years his politics has been seen as either too liberal or too conservative by various
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Commager wrote hundreds of essays and opinion pieces on history or presenting a historical perspective on current issues for popular magazines and newspapers. He collected many of the best of these articles and essays in such books as
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Commager felt a duty as a professional historian to reach out to his fellow citizens. He believed that an educated public that understands American history would support liberal programs, especially internationalism and the
675:(1938), reaching its tenth edition (co-edited with his former student Milton Cantor) in 1988, half a century after its first appearance, remains a standard collection work of primary sources. His two documentary histories, 1092:, an intellectual leader on the right, ridiculed Commager as suffering "the liberal neurosis" for stating that America is suffering repression "more violent, more reckless, more dangerous than any in our history." 951:
Although at first Commager was not deeply concerned with race, he became an advocate for civil rights for African Americans, as he was for other groups. In 1949 he fought to allow the African-American historian
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in 1928. The couple had three children: Henry Steele Commager Jr. (1932โ€“1984), known as Steele Commager, who became a classicist at Columbia University and wrote one of the leading books on the Roman poet
353:(October 25, 1902 โ€“ March 2, 1998) was an American historian. As one of the most active and prolific liberal intellectuals of his time, with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, he helped define 1074:, a former President of the NAACP), reluctantly agreed to most of the demanded changes. Morison refused, however, to remove repeated references to the anti-abolitionist caricature of 1070:
launched criticism of the textbook; by 1950, under pressure from students and younger colleagues, Morison, denying any racist intent (he noted that his daughter had been married to
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detractors. He is ranked among such other great historians of his time as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Allan Nevins, Richard Hofstadter, and Samuel Eliot Morrison .
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He often was interviewed on television news programs and public-affairs documentaries to provide historical perspective on such events as the
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At Columbia, Commager mentored a series of distinguished historians who earned their PhD degrees under his tutelage, including
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to protect racial and religious minorities from discrimination and to safeguard individual liberties as protected by the
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received vigorous criticism from African-American intellectuals and other scholars for their popular textbook
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that no moneys can be spent by the federal government except those specifically appropriated by Congress.
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from 1956 to 1992. He retired in 1992 from the John Woodruff Simpson Lectureship, and died, aged 95, in
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review of Neil Jumonville, Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism And The History Of The Present
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In 1979, Commager married Mary Powlesland, a professor in Latin American studies, in Linton, England.
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Cramer, Benjamin W. (2015). "Commager, Henry Steele". In Chapman, Roger; Ciment, James (eds.).
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series planned and edited at the beginning of the twentieth century by the Harvard historian
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The Spirit of Seventy-six: The Story of The American Revolution as Told by Participants
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The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s
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When drafting the document Commager was assisted by an "Advisory Committee" including
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The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s
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on October 24, 1975. It was signed in a ceremonial signing on January 30, 1976, at
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The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Character Thought Since the 1880s
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Jumonville, Neil (1996). "The Origin of Henry Steele Commager's Activist Ideas".
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The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment
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The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment
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for a year researching his dissertation on the political reform movement in
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Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present
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The Defeat of America: War, Presidential Power, and the National Character
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America in the Twentieth Century: A Study of the United States Since 1917
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The Heritage of America: Readings in American History for High Schools
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In the 1940s and 1950s, Commager was noted for his campaigns against
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August A. Meier, a young professor at a black southern college,
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Commager was born Henry Irving Commager on October 25, 1902, in
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Freedom and Order: A Commentary on the American Political Scene
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The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography
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The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography
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Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints and Voices
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and what he viewed as their abuses of presidential power.
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Roots, E. Brian (1994). "Commager, Henry Steele Jr.". In
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His principal scholarly works were his 1936 biography of
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asked Commager for advice for their argument before the
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The Marcus W. Jernegan Essays in American Historiography
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at the age of ninety-five on March 2, 1998, in Amherst.
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Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professors of American History
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and agreed to introduce him to the group. In 1953 the
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Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists
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Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Chicago
BPhil
MA
PhD
Thesis
Andrew C. McLaughlin
Vernon Louis Parrington
American
cultural
intellectual
Danish
New York University
Columbia University
Amherst College
Harold Hyman
William E. Leuchtenburg
Leonard W. Levy
R. B. Bernstein
modern liberalism in the United States
McCarthyism
Columbia University
Allan Nevins
Adlai E. Stevenson
John F. Kennedy
opposed the Vietnam War
Lyndon B. Johnson

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