Download or read book Henry Steele Commager written by Neil Jumonville and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century. Author or editor of more than forty books, he taught for decades at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College and was a pioneer in the field of American studies. But Commager's work was by no means confined to the halls of the university: a popular essayist, lecturer, and political commentator, he earned a reputation as an activist for liberal causes and waged public campaigns against McCarthyism in the 1950s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s. As few have been able to do in the past half-century, Commager united the two worlds of scholarship and public intellectual activity. Through Commager's life and legacy, Neil Jumonville explores a number of questions central to the intellectual history of postwar America. After considering whether Commager and his associates were really the conservative and conformist group that critics have assumed them to be, Jumonville offers a reevaluation of the liberalism of the period. Finally, he uses Commager's example to ask whether intellectual life is truly compatible with scholarly life.
Download or read book The Story of World War II written by Donald L. Miller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-08 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling one of the most powerful accounts of warfare ever published. Here are the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury. Miller gives us an up-close, deeply personal view of a war that was more savagely fought—and whose outcome was in greater doubt—than readers might imagine. This is the war that Americans at the home front would have read about had they had access to the previously censored testimony of the soldiers on which Miller builds his gripping narrative. Miller covers the entire war—on land, at sea, and in the air—and provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death camps, and the contributions of African Americans and other minorities. He concludes with a suspenseful, never-before-told story of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, based on interviews with the men who flew the mission that ended the war.
Download or read book America s Robert E Lee written by Henry Steele Commager and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the commander of the Confederate armies, describing his family life, his career, and his campaigns during the Civil War.
Download or read book A Pocket History of the United States written by Allan Nevins and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1989-11 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Pocket History of the United States" traces the history of the nation that is, today, the oldest constitutional democracy in the world. Written by distinguished American historians, it has more than 2,000,000 copies in print worldwide and is one of the classic works in its field.
Download or read book The Story of the Second World War written by Henry Steele Commager and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of World War II from the perspective of historians and firsthand observers, this study seeks to provide readers with an accurate picture of how the war was perceived at the time it was fought.
Download or read book The Heritage of America written by Henry Steele Commager and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Growth of the American Republic written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly revised to bring the study fully up to date and to reflect new insights derived from significant modern research.
Download or read book Documents of American history written by Henry Steele Commager (red.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Henry Steele Commager written by Henry Steele Commager and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student, University of Chicago, 1918-1924; PhD, University of Copenhagen, 1924-1925; professor of history, New York Universtiy, 1926-1938; friendship with Samuel Eliot Morison; writing of GROWTH OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC; friendship with Allan Nevins, 1932-1971: Nevins's working habits, temperament, background in journalism, approach to history, relationship to Nicholas Murray Butler; role in establishment of Bancroft Fund; Professor of History, Columbia University, 1939-1959; professor of history, Amherst College, 1959- ; present state of Columbia University; comparison of American and European universities; critique of contemporary American historians and their works.
Download or read book The Empire of Reason written by Henry Steele Commager and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a survey of the origins and growth of 18th century rationalism, the author explains how the realization of the great philosophers' ideals in Europe was inevitably frustrated by the counterweight of tradition and privilege. He points out that in America there were no such barriers. The principles of the Enlightenment were written into law, crystallised into institutions, and sanctified by use. Although democracy was not absolute (the existence of slavery remained unquestioned), in comparison with Europe, America could justifiably claim to be incorporating the ideals of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' into the daily lives of her people. The result was the start of an American revolution as significant as the winning of independence and the creation of a nation. This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of America's past - essential both for a true appreciation of America's European origins and for her subsequent development into the 20th century."Learning and reason are at the service of a mind whose understanding of democracy gains brilliance and power from a passion for democratic freedom." Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Download or read book Commager on Tocqueville written by Henry Steele Commager and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commager explores the themes of Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America, his concern not so much with what Tocqueville says about America and democracy in the 1830s as with how his work illuminates the same subjects in the 1990s. The essays are based on a series of lectures. No bibliography or index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Story of the Second World War written by Henry Steele Commager and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissue of a classic work originally published in 1945
Download or read book The American Mind written by Henry Steele Commager and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Articles of Confederation written by Merrill Jensen and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1940 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a book which deals with clashes between economic and political factors in the American Revolution as realistically as if its author were dealing with a presidential election."--Social Studies "An admirable analysis. It presents, in succinct form, the results of a generation of study of this chapter of our history and summarizes fairly the conclusions of that study."--Henry Steele Commager, New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Why The North Won The Civil War written by David Herbert Donald and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHY THE SOUTH LOST What led to the downfall of the Confederacy? The distinguished professors of history represented in this volume examine the following crucial factors in the South’s defeat: ECONOMIC—RICHARD N. CURRENT of the University of Wisconsin attributes the victory of the North to fundamental economic superiority so great that the civilian resources of the South were dissipated under the conditions of war. MILITARY—T. HARRY WILLIAMS of Louisiana State University cites the deficiencies of Confederate strategy and military leadership, evaluating the influence on both sides of Baron Jomini, a 19th-century strategist who stressed position warfare and a rapid tactical offensive. DIPLOMATIC—NORMAN A. GRAERNER of the University of Illinois holds that the basic reason England and France decided not to intervene on the side of the South was simply that to have done so would have violated the general principle of non-intervention to which they were committed. SOCIAL—DAVID DONALD of Columbia University offers the intriguing thesis that an excess of Southern democracy killed the Confederacy. From the ordinary man in the ranks to Jefferson Davis himself, too much emphasis was placed on individual freedom and not enough on military discipline. POLITICAL—DAVID M. POTTER of Stanford University suggests that the deficiencies of President Davis as a civil and military leader turner the balance, and that the South suffered from the lack of a second well-organized political party to force its leadership into competence.
Download or read book The St Nicholas Anthology written by Henry Steele Commager and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1948 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twilight / Eudora Welty -- Mystery / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Frozen brook / Stella Benson -- Home, to Penelope / Bruce T. Simonds -- Vacation song / E. Vincent Millay -- Voice of the city / John C. Farrar -- Vacation down south / E. Babette Deutsch -- Gratitude / Cornelia Otis Skinner -- In June-time / William R. Benet -- When swallows build / Corey H. Ford -- Where do the fairies meet? / Jessica Nelson North -- Winter walk / Rachel Lyman Field -- Song of summer / Sterling North -- Song of the woods / Stephen Vincent Benet -- My favorite character in fiction / Anne L. Parrish -- Four charades / C.P. Cranch -- Eight charades, done up in rhyme, for lad and lass at candle-time / Ralph Henry Barbour -- Cross-word enigma / G.F. Babcock -- Anagram -- Double-acrostic / Elinor Lothrop Daniels -- Connected squares / Florence and Edna -- Diamond / Jennie N. Child -- Illustrated primal acrostic -- "Aged" puzzle / Helen A. Sibley -- Oblique rectangle / George Linwood Hosea -- Magic letters / Maurice P. Dunlap -- M.M.D. / Josephien Daskam Bacon.
Download or read book Jefferson Nationalism and the Enlightenment written by Henry Steele Commager and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays and lectures from Henry Steele Commager, one of America's eminent historians. The focus is on the age of enlightenment, with particular attention to Thomas Jefferson, and how enlightenment philosophy shaped the birth of the United States.
