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877:"Henry Steele Commager"
697:William E. Leuchtenburg
654:William E. Leuchtenburg
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2345:Civil rights movement
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1968:Henry Steele Commager
1935:Henry Steele Commager
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1261:"Commager Chronology"
1085:Selected publications
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666:The Blue and the Gray
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148:University of Chicago
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2085:Roy Franklin Nichols
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646:Samuel Eliot Morison
634:Fourteenth Amendment
610:Vernon L. Parrington
592:intellectual history
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447:(1928). He lived in
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2011:Library of Congress
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1798:The History Teacher
1646:Chambers, Whittaker
1581:on February 4, 2012
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709:American Revolution
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139:Academic background
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2166:Bruce Catton Prize
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2095:Lawrence H. Gipson
2062:Title last held by
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1485:Research in Review
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