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Henry Steele Commager
Henry Steele Commager (October 25, 1902 – 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 modern liberalism in the United States.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Commager was noted for his campaigns against McCarthyism and other abuses of government power. With his Columbia University colleague Allan Nevins, Commager helped to organize academic support for Adlai E. Stevenson in 1952 and 1956
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- 1967 St. Louis Literary Award Recipient
- Amherst College: Henry Steele Commager Project
- Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998)
- Henry Steele Commager Official Site (2013 archive), Copyright 2000-2013 - Mary Commager
- review of Neil Jumonville, Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism And The History Of The Present at H-NET
- http://www.mlfilms.com/productions/m_and_i "Memory and Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress" Documentary]