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  1. [+]
    Ambitious Research (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    A Literary History of the American People, by Charles Angoff
    1. A Literary History of the American People by Charles Angoff
    The Forum, June 1931
  2. America in Perspective (1947)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The United States Through Foreign Eyes
    7 Reviews, 2 Readable
  3. America in the Age of No Confidence
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, August 10, 1974, pp. 15-21
  4. America: The Story of a Free People (1942)
    Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  5. The American Destiny (1975)
    Henry Steele Commager
  6. [+]
    American History (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Ralph L. Rusk and Ralph Waldo Emerson
    1. The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph L. Rusk and Ralph Waldo Emerson
    The American Historical Review, July 1940, pp. 914-916
  7. [+]
    American History (2 Reviews)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Modest Man, by Edward Mather
    1. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Modest Man by Edward Mather
    2. Hawthorne as Editor by Arlin Turner and Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The American Historical Review, January 1942, pp. 357-358
  8. [+]
    American History (Review)
    Henry Commager
    Travels in the Confederate States, by E. Merton Coulter
    1. Travels in the Confederate States by E. Merton Coulter
    The American Historical Review, July 1950, pp. 935-936
  9. The American Mind (1950)
    Henry Steele Commager
    An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's
    11 Reviews, 3 Readable
  10. The American Political Party
    Henry Steele Commager
    The American Scholar, Summer 1950, pp. 309-316
  11. The American Tradition
    Henry Steele Commager
    A great American historian introduces Collier's new series of articles
    Collier's Weekly, April 27, 1956, p. 21
  12. America's Heritage of Bigness
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, July 4, 1970, pp. 10-12
  13. [+]
    America's Not So Dubious Battle (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Fire in the Ashes, by Theodore H. White
    1. Fire in the Ashes by Theodore H. White
    The Reporter, November 24, 1953, pp. 42-47
  14. America's Robert E. Lee (1951)
    Henry Steele Commager
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  15. The Blue and the Gray (1950)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Story of the Civil War as Told by Participants
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  16. Can We Control the War in Vietnam?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, September 17, 1966, pp. 25-27
  17. Can We Limit Presidential Power?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The New Republic, April 6, 1968, pp. 15-18
  18. The Case for Amnesty
    Henry Steele Commager
    The New York Review of Books, April 6, 1972, pp. 23-24
  19. Books and the Arts
    Children's Books Yesterday and Today
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Nation, May 21, 1949, p. 586
  20. Choosing Supreme Court Judges
    Henry Steele Commager
    The New Republic, May 2, 1970, pp. 13-16
  21. [+]
    Clear All Wires! (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Revolution, 1776, by John Hyde Preston
    1. Revolution, 1776 by John Hyde Preston
    The New Republic, May 10, 1933, p. 371
  22. [+]
    Comedy of Treason (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Divided Loyalties, by Lewis Einstein
    1. Divided Loyalties by Lewis Einstein
    The New Republic, November 29, 1933, p. 78
  23. Commager on Tocqueville (1993)
    Henry Steele Commager
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  24. [+]
    Common Sense (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    In a Time of Torment, 1961-1967, by I.F. Stone
    1. In a Time of Torment, 1961-1967 by I.F. Stone
    The New York Review of Books, December 5, 1968, p. 3
  25. [+]
    The Compleat Pioneer (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Forty-Niners, by Archer Butler Hulbert
    1. Forty-Niners by Archer Butler Hulbert
    The New Republic, December 30, 1931, p. 194
  26. [+]
    The Courage and Common Sense of Elmer Davis (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    But We Were Born Free, by Elmer H. Davis
    1. But We Were Born Free by Elmer H. Davis
    The Reporter, April 13, 1954, pp. 44-45
  27. [+]
    Dangerous Myths in American Diplomacy (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Limits of Foreign Policy, by Charles Burton Marshall
    1. The Limits of Foreign Policy by Charles Burton Marshall
    The Reporter, September 23, 1954, p. 54
  28. The Defeat of America (1975)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Presidential Power and National Character
    1 Review
  29. [+]
    The Defeat of America (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Roots of War, by Richard J. Barnet
    1. Roots of War by Richard J. Barnet
    The New York Review of Books, October 5, 1972, pp. 7-12
  30. Documents of American History (1934)
    Henry Steele Commager
    2 Reviews
  31. Don't Believe Anything you Read!
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Nation, April 20, 1946, pp. 463-464
  32. [+]
    The Economics of Appomattox (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    King Cotton Diplomacy, by Frank Lawrence Owsley
    1. King Cotton Diplomacy by Frank Lawrence Owsley
    The New Republic, September 23, 1931, p. 158
  33. Editorial
    Henry Steele Commager
    The American Scholar, Summer 1943, pp. 261-262
  34. Education in a Free Society (1960)
    Henry Steele Commager, Robert W. McEwen, and Brand Blanshard, ...
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  35. The Empire of Reason (1977)
    Henry Steele Commager
    How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  36. English Traits
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Atlantic Monthly, August 1948, pp. 61-65
  37. [+]
    Federalist history (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    John Marshall in Diplomacy and in Law, by Lord Craigmyle
    1. John Marshall in Diplomacy and in Law by Lord Craigmyle
    The Saturday Review, May 13, 1933, p. 590
  38. Fifty Basic Civil War Documents (1965)
    Henry Steele Commager
  39. [+]
    The Fight for Fur (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Forbidden Ground, by Neil H. Swanson
    1. The Forbidden Ground by Neil H. Swanson
    The Saturday Review, June 11, 1938, p. 13
  40. The First Book of American History (1957)
    Henry Steele Commager
    1 Review
  41. Foreign Study---Perils and Possibilities
    Henry Steele Commager
    On the Evils of a Foreign Education
    The Saturday Review, February 18, 1967, pp. 83-84
  42. Freedom and Order (1966)
    Henry Steele Commager
    A Commentary on the American Political Scene
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  43. Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954)
    Henry Steele Commager
    6 Reviews, 1 Readable
  44. The Library
    [+]
    The German Problem (2 Reviews)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Germany Is Our Problem, by Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
    1. Germany Is Our Problem by Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
    2. The German Talks Back by Heinrich Hauser
    The American Mercury, December 1945, pp. 753-757
  45. The Great Declaration (1958)
    Henry Steele Commager
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  46. The Great Proclamation (1960)
    Henry Steele Commager
  47. The Growth of the American Republic (1930)
    Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager, ...
    9 Reviews, 4 Readable
  48. Has the Small College a Future?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, February 21, 1970, pp. 62-65
  49. [+]
    Here Is Heresy (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Secession of the Southern States, by Gerald W. Johnson
    1. The Secession of the Southern States by Gerald W. Johnson
    The Saturday Review, January 20, 1934, p. 426
  50. The Heritage of America (1939)
    Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins
    8 Reviews, 3 Readable
  51. [+]
    His Eye on the Eagle (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Priceless Gift, by Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson, and Ellen Axson Wilson, ...
    1. The Priceless Gift by Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson, and Ellen Axson Wilson, ...
    The Saturday Review, January 19, 1963, pp. 35-36
  52. A Historian Looks at Our Political Morality
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, July 10, 1965, pp. 16-18
  53. [+]
    A Historian of the Colonial Mind (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Life of Moses Coit Tyler, by Howard Mumford Jones and Thomas Edgar Casady
    1. The Life of Moses Coit Tyler by Howard Mumford Jones and Thomas Edgar Casady
    The Saturday Review, July 8, 1933, p. 689
  54. [+]
    How It All Looked to Mr. Truman (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Year of Decisions, by Harry S. Truman
    1. The Year of Decisions by Harry S. Truman
    The Reporter, December 1, 1955, pp. 42-45
  55. [+]
    If Only We Wouldn't Talk So Much! (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Price of Power, by Herbert Agar
    1. The Price of Power by Herbert Agar
    The Reporter, August 8, 1957, pp. 52-53
  56. Immigration and American History (1961)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Essays in Honor of Theodore C. Blegen
    1 Review
  57. [+]
    The Imponderables of History (2 Reviews)
    Henry Commager
    The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America, by Bernard Fay
    1. The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America by Bernard Fay
    2. America and French Culture, 1750-1848 by Howard Mumford Jones
    The New Republic, May 9, 1928, p. 355
  58. 'Intelligence'
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Constitution Betrayed
    The New York Review of Books, September 30, 1976, pp. 32-37
  59. America and Britain
    Introduction
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, October 13, 1951, p. 11
  60. Is Freedom an Academic Question?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, June 20, 1964, pp. 54-56
  61. Is Freedom Really Necessary?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, February 21, 1953, pp. 11-12
  62. Is Ivy Necessary?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, September 17, 1960, pp. 69-70
  63. Jane Addams: 1860-1960
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, December 24, 1960, pp. 26-27
  64. Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment (1974)
    Henry Steele Commager
    2 Reviews
  65. The Land and the People
    Henry Steele Commager
    The English Character: An Interpretation
    The Saturday Review, October 13, 1951, pp. 20-21
  66. The Library
    [+]
    Large States Versus Small (2 Reviews)
    Henry Steele Commager
    U.S. War Aims, by Walter Lippmann
    1. U.S. War Aims by Walter Lippmann
    2. The Time for Decision by Sumner Welles
    The American Mercury, October 1944, pp. 495-499
  67. Letters
    Mike Gravel, E.J. Hobsbawm, and Michael K. Garrity, ...
    The New York Review of Books, June 15, 1972, p. 36
  68. [+]
    The Lively History of the Fur Trade (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Beaver, Kings and Cabins, by Constance Lindsay Skinner
    1. Beaver, Kings and Cabins by Constance Lindsay Skinner
    The Saturday Review, September 30, 1933, p. 143
  69. Living Ideas in America (1951)
    Henry Steele Commager
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  70. [+]
    Louis Bromfield Looks Backward (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Farm, by Louis Bromfield
    1. The Farm by Louis Bromfield
    The Saturday Review, August 19, 1933, p. 49
  71. Majority Rule and Minority Rights (1943)
    Henry Steele Commager
    A Study in Jeffersonian Democracy and Judiciary Review
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  72. [+]
    Maker of History, Writer of History (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Triumph and Tragedy, by Winston S. Churchill
    1. Triumph and Tragedy by Winston S. Churchill
    The Reporter, January 19, 1954, pp. 34-37
  73. McGuffey and His Readers
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, June 16, 1962, pp. 50-51
  74. The Misuse of Poewr
    Henry Steele Commager
    The New Republic, April 17, 1971, pp. 17-20
  75. [+]
    Monopolies of the Mind (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The First Freedom, by Morris L. Ernst
    1. The First Freedom by Morris L. Ernst
    The Nation, June 15, 1946, pp. 723-724
  76. A Nation of Travelers
    Henry Steele Commager
    An Editorial
    The Saturday Review, January 11, 1958, p. 24
  77. The Library
    [+]
    The Negro in Our Democracy (2 Reviews)
    Henry Steele Commager
    An American Dilemma, by Gunnar Myrdal, Richard Sterner, and Arnold Rose
    1. An American Dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal, Richard Sterner, and Arnold Rose
    2. Black Boy by Richard A. Wright
    The American Mercury, June 1945, pp. 751-756
  78. [+]
    New England and Middle Colonies and States (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Louisa May Alcott, by Katharine S. Anthony
    1. Louisa May Alcott by Katharine S. Anthony
    The American Historical Review, July 1939, pp. 1006-1007
  79. The Nineteenth-Century American
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Atlantic Monthly, December 1946, pp. 71-77
  80. Noah Webster 1758-1958
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, October 18, 1958, pp. 10-12
  81. On the Way to 1984
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, April 15, 1967, pp. 68-69
  82. One Hundred Years of Famous Pages from the New ... (1950)
    Henry Steele Commager
    1 Review, 1 Readable
  83. [+]
    The Open Mind and the Closed Border (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Migration of Ideas, by Gilbert Highet
    1. The Migration of Ideas by Gilbert Highet
    The Reporter, July 6, 1954, p. 38
  84. Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. ... (1979)
    Henry Steele Commager and Edward M. Kennedy
    1 Review
  85. The Perilous Delusion of Security
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Reporter, November 3, 1955, pp. 32-35
  86. The Perilous Folly of Senator Bricker
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Reporter, October 13, 1953, pp. 12-17
  87. [+]
    The Presidency After Watergate (2 Reviews)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Who Makes War, by Jacob K. Javits and Don Kellermann
    1. Who Makes War by Jacob K. Javits and Don Kellermann
    2. The Living Presidency by Emmet John Hughes
    The New York Review of Books, October 18, 1973, pp. 49-52
  88. [+]
    Reconstruction Reconstructed (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    South Carolina During Reconstruction, by Francis Butler Simkins and Robert Hilliard Woo...
    1. South Carolina During Reconstruction by Francis Butler Simkins and Robert Hilliard Woody, ...
    The New Republic, July 27, 1932, p. 295
  89. [+]
    A Reed Shaken by the Wind (Review)
    Henry Commager
    Hans Christian Andersen, by Hans Christian Andersen
    1. Hans Christian Andersen by Hans Christian Andersen
    The New Republic, June 15, 1927, p. 105
  90. Reports and Comment
    Henry Steele Commager
    Foreign Policy: Outmoded Assumptions
    The Atlantic Monthly, March 1982, pp. 12-21
  91. The Republican Dilemma
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Reporter, October 14, 1952, pp. 6-8
  92. Responsibility of American Nationalism
    Henry Steele Commager
    Foreign Policy Report, January 1, 1958, pp. 57-58
  93. The Roots of Lawlessness
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, February 13, 1971, pp. 17-19
  94. The School as Surrogate Conscience
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, January 11, 1975, pp. 54-57
  95. The Search for a Usable Past, and Other Essays in Historiography (1967)
    Henry Steele Commager
    2 Reviews
  96. The Second St. Nicholas Anthology (1950)
    Henry Steele Commager
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  97. Selected Writings of William Dean Howells (1950)
    Henry Steele Commager and William Dean Howells, ...
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  98. [+]
    The Shame of the Republic (3 Reviews)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Politics of Lying, by David Wise
    1. The Politics of Lying by David Wise
    2. The Crippled Giant by J. William Fulbright
    3. Political Prisoners in America by Charles E. Goodell
    The New York Review of Books, July 19, 1973, pp. 10-14
  99. [+]
    "She Conquered a Crown" (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Crusader in Crinoline, by R. Forrest Wilson
    1. Crusader in Crinoline by R. Forrest Wilson
    The Saturday Review, March 15, 1941, p. 6
  100. A Short History of the United States (1945)
    Allan Nevins and Henry S. Commager
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  101. Should Historians Write Contemporary History?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, February 12, 1966, pp. 18-20
  102. Should UN Expel Aggressors?
    Henry Steele Commager
    Foreign Policy Report, December 15, 1956, pp. 49-50
  103. The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six (1958)
    Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris
    The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  104. The St. Nicholas Anthology (1948)
    Henry Steele Commager
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  105. [+]
    State Planning and Freedom (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Road to reaction, by Herman Finer
    1. The Road to reaction by Herman Finer
    The American Mercury, January 1946, pp. 113-116
  106. [+]
    States' Rights and Senator Neuberger (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Adventures in Politics, by Richard L. Neuberger
    1. Adventures in Politics by Richard L. Neuberger
    The Reporter, December 2, 1954, pp. 42-43
  107. The Story of the Second World War (1945)
    Henry Steele Commager
    5 Reviews, 2 Readable
  108. Telling the Story of the Revolution
    Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris
    The Saturday Review, December 27, 1958, pp. 9-10
  109. [+]
    The Terror of the Damyankees (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Bedford Forrest, and His Critter Company, by Andrew Nelson Lytle
    1. Bedford Forrest, and His Critter Company by Andrew Nelson Lytle
    The New Republic, July 22, 1931, p. 266
  110. Theodore Parker, Intellectual Gourmand
    Henry Steele Commager
    The American Scholar, Summer 1934, pp. 257-265
  111. Theodore Parker: Yankee Crusader (1936)
    Henry Steele Commager
    7 Reviews, 4 Readable
  112. Tocqueville' Mistake
    Henry Steele Commager
    Centralization and a strong national government have extended, not curtailed, our liber...
    The Harpers Monthly, August 1984, pp. 70-76
  113. Tom Paine Talks Back to Providence
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, December 24, 1955, pp. 5-7
  114. [+]
    Transition (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Rise of the City, 1878-1898, by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
    1. The Rise of the City, 1878-1898 by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
    The New Republic, July 5, 1933, p. 215
  115. Twelve Years of Roosevelt
    Henry Steele Commager
    The American Mercury, April 1945, pp. 391-401
  116. [+]
    United States History: General (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Makers of Christianity, Vol. III, by William Warren Sweet
    1. Makers of Christianity, Vol. III by William Warren Sweet
    The American Historical Review, April 1939, p. 722
  117. The University as Employment Agency
    Henry Steele Commager
    The New Republic, February 24, 1968, pp. 23-26
  118. Victims of Success
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, May 3, 1958, pp. 12-14
  119. Vietnam: A Debate
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Problem of Dissent
    The Saturday Review, December 18, 1965, pp. 21-23
  120. [+]
    Washington via Case Studies (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Washington and the Revolution: A Reappraisal, by Bernhard Knollenberg
    1. Washington and the Revolution: A Reappraisal by Bernhard Knollenberg
    The Saturday Review, December 21, 1940, p. 5
  121. Articles
    Washington Witch-hunt
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Nation, April 5, 1947, p. 385
  122. Wayfaring Scholars
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, February 18, 1961, pp. 56-57
  123. What Are We Waiting For?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The New Republic, July 6, 1968, pp. 17-18
  124. What Do We Mean by Academic Freedom?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Nature of Academic Freedom
    The Saturday Review, August 27, 1966, pp. 13-15
  125. What Liberty Means to Robert A. Taft
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Reporter, July 22, 1952, pp. 11-13
  126. What U.S. Must Do to Implement Current Policy
    Henry Steele Commager
    Foreign Policy Report, January 26, 1951, p. 1
  127. When Majors Wrote for Minors
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, May 10, 1952, pp. 10-11
  128. Where Are We Headed?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Atlantic Monthly, February 1946, pp. 54-58
  129. Who Is Loyal to America?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Harpers Monthly, September 1947, pp. 193-198
  130. Why Are We Mad at Teacher?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Reporter, October 21, 1954, pp. 39-40
  131. [+]
    Why Call It Liberalism? (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Liberalism in the South, by Virginius Dabney
    1. Liberalism in the South by Virginius Dabney
    The New Republic, April 5, 1933, p. 221
  132. [+]
    Wild Bill Hickok (Review)
    Henry Steele Commager
    Wild Bill and His Era, by William Elsey Connelley
    1. Wild Bill and His Era by William Elsey Connelley
    The Saturday Review, July 22, 1933, p. 3
  133. Winston Churchill
    Henry Steele Commager
    An Appreciation
    The American Mercury, August 1945, pp. 135-146
  134. 1918-1968: Is the World Safer for Anything?
    Henry Steele Commager
    The Saturday Review, November 9, 1968, pp. 21-24
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