Reminiscences of Henry Steele Commager, 1979

Biographical Note

Historian

Scope and Contents

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 comtemporary American historians and their works

Subjects

• Amherst College.
• Columbia University.
• Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998--Interviews.
• Historians--Interviews.
• Historiography--United States.
• History--Study and teaching.
• Interviews.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976.
• Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971.
• New York University.
• Niven, John, interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)