![]() ![]() He lived in Copenhagen for a year in 1924, researching his dissertation on Johann Friedrich Struensee and the Enlightenment reform movement in Denmark.Ĭommager married Evan Alexa Carroll (b. He grew up in Toledo and Chicago, attending the University of Chicago and earning degrees in history: Ph.B. ![]() In addition, he edited a widely used compilation, Documents of American History ten editions were published between 19, the last coedited with Commager's former student, Milton Cantor.Ĭommager was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of James Williams and Anne Elizabeth (Dan) Commager. ![]() His principal scholarly works were his 1936 biography of Theodore Parker his intellectual history The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character since the 1880s (1950), which focuses on the evolution of liberalism in the American political mind from the 1880s to the 1940s, and his intellectual history Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment (1977). Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan and what he viewed as their abuses of presidential power. He opposed the Vietnam War and was an outspoken critic of Presidents Lyndon B. ![]() With his Columbia University colleague Allan Nevins, Commager helped to organize academic support for Adlai E. In the 1940s and 1950s, Commager was noted for his campaigns against McCarthyism and other abuses of government power. ![]()
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