Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was an American historian who achieved much fame as a textbook author and as an editor of books of documents. He also earned a reputation as an historian of ideas and as a participant in the debates on the public...

For over half a century Henry Steele Commager has devoted his energies to making it easier for scholars and lay readers both to "get at" the sources of the American historical record and to understand their heritage more fully. He has undertaken these...

AMHERST - Leonine white hair, black wool suit, an interest in his freshman-year students at Amherst College, a clapboard house with a little peeling paint and rooms full of books - his appearance and environment would be cliches were they not originals. A...

Henry Steele Commager, a prolific American historian and champion of the US Constitution, died yesterday at his home in Amherst. He was 95. The retired professor of American history and American studies at Amherst College had written extensively on the development of US...

In the midst of writing his best-selling memoir, Pete Hamill reached out to siblings Tom and Kathleen, hoping for the answer to a lingering question from their Brooklyn childhood: In the local candy store, Foppiano's, what exactly was in the racks between the Life Savers...

A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History, by Thomas Bender. Hill and Wang, 368 pages, $26. It takes a man with a certain singular talent to write a history of America empty of originality and devoid of insight. William J. Bennett...