Henry Steele Commager (October 25, 1902 – March 2, 1998), the renowned — and often controversial — American historian and teacher, was the author of over forty books and 700 articles in scholarly and more popular journals. He was one of a prolific generation of public intellectuals who used his scholarly training and research to address many of the major topics of the day, including war and peace, constitutional government and evolving issues of American civil rights and society. In collaboration with the Commager Estate, HEB here makes available in digital form thirty of Commager’s scholarly works, primary-source collections and important textbook and general publications.
| Author | Title | Date |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Documents of American History, 3rd Edition | 1943 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Majority Rule and Minority Rights | 1943 |
| Commager, Henry Steele and Nevins, Allan | A Short History of the United States | 1945 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Pocket History of the Second World War | 1945 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Story of the Second World War, Edited with Historic Narrative | 1945 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | America In Perspective: The United States through foreign eyes in thirty-five essays, Edited with introduction and notes | 1947 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The St. Nicholas Anthology, Edited | 1948 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's | 1950 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Blue and the Gray: The story of the Civil War as told by Participants, Volume One: The Nomination of Lincoln to the Eve of Gettysburg | 1950 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Blue and the Gray: The Battle of Gettysburg to Appomattox, Volume Two | 1950 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Living Ideas in America, Edited and with commentary | 1951 |
| Commager, Henry Steele and Nevins, Allan | The Pocket History of the United States | 1951 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent | 1954 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Documents of American History 6th edition | 1958 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Era of Reform, 1830-1860 | 1960 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Crusaders For Freedom | 1962 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Defeat of the Confederacy: a documentary survey | 1964 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Fifty Basic Civil War Documents | 1965 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Nature and the Study of History | 1965 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Study of History | 1966 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Freedom and Order: a commentary on the American political scene | 1966 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Lester Ward and the Welfare State | 1967 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography | 1967 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Struggle for Racial Equality, Edited | 1967 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Was America A Mistake? | 1967 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Commonwealth of Learning | 1968 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Britain Through American Eyes | 1974 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | The Defeat of America: Presidential Power and the National Character | 1974 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment | 1975 |
| Commager, Henry Steele and Muessig, Raymond H. | The Study and teaching of history | 1980 |
| Commager, Henry Steele | Commager on Tocqueville | 1993 |
