Commager

American  

[kom-uh-jer] / ˈkɒm ə dʒər /

noun

1. Henry Steele, 1902–98, U.S. historian, author, and teacher.

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Example Sentences

The historian Henry Steele Commager called the book “the most persuasive critique of American foreign policy over the last 20 years.”

From New York Times • May 8, 2023

He also received, as birthday gifts from his mother’s friends, books by the historians Henry Steele Commager and Henri Pirenne.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2022

Everyone prefers the Alger scenario of social mobility, which historian Henry Steele Commager described as one in which “opportunities lie all about you; success is material and is the reward of virtue and work.”

From Salon • Jul. 16, 2017

In his distrust of judges, Professor Commager echoes Thomas Jefferson's opinion that Chief Justice Marshall was "a crafty chief judge who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning."

From Time Magazine Archive

The struggle for racial equality: a documentary record, selected and edited by Henry Steele Commager.

From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Porter, Dorothy B.