Aphrodisias
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Aphrodisias, Turkey Ninoe, Aphrodite, Caria, Geyre Ruins dedicated to the ancient Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. Ninoe was the Carian name for the goddess and Caria, after the Carians, was in vogue by the 14th century. Caria became the Turkish Geyre which is now the name of a nearby village.
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Eminent Historian Henry Steele Commager Dies at 95
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/3/1998; ; 700+ words
; Henry Steele Commager, 95, one of the leading scholars...once taught history with one of Dr. Commager's popular texts, told the Associated...To have a person of the status of Henry Steele Commager saying the same thing was very reinforcing...
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Henry Steele Commager, historian, dead at 95
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/3/1998; 654 words
; ...1998 AMHERST, Mass. (AP) _ Henry Steele Commager, a prolific American historian...who once taught history with Commager's popular textbook, said the...have a person of the status of Henry Steele Commager saying the same thing was very...
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HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, 95; US HISTORIAN TAUGHT AT AMHERST
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/3/1998; ; 700+ words
; Henry Steele Commager, a prolific American historian and...literature." The best known of Mr. Commager's many books was "The Growth of the...Rise of the American Nation." Mr. Commager also wrote many articles on the state...
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THE VIEW FROM 85: HENRY STEELE COMMAGER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/10/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...and unequivocal opposition to the Vietnam war, Henry Steele Commager at 85 is becoming Mr. Chips. For a man whose passion...easy to agree with his condition; in the life of Henry Steele Commager, the fields are inseparable anyway. A few hours...
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Henry Commager service tomorrow
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/8/1998; 267 words
; A memorial service will be held tomorrow for Henry Steele Commager, a historian and longtime professor at Amherst College. Mr. Commager was coauthor of "The Growth of the American Republic...
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Commager was famed historian `Growth of the American Republic' is best known of his many books
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/3/1998; 444 words
; Henry Steele Commager, a prolific historian who believed...literature," died Monday. He was 95. Commager, who died at his home here, was John...Before coming to Amherst in 1956, Commager was on the faculty at New York University...
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Nation building.(Henry Adams and the Making of America)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/31/2005; ; 700+ words
; Henry Adams and the Making of America, by...30) OF great American books, Henry Adams's History of the United States...distinguished historians--Richard Hofstadter, Henry Steele Commager, Merrill Peterson--who have made...
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Deaths
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/3/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Collins Sr. He is survived by his wife, three daughters, a sister and a grandson. Henry Steele Commager AMHERST, Mass. (AP) - Henry Steele Commager, a prolific American historian who believed the U.S. Constitution was the ``greatest...
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HISTORIAN VIEWS REAGAN AS OUR 'WORST PRESIDENT'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/24/1989; ; 700+ words
; AMHERST - Historian Henry Steele Commager, who would give no recent presidents...worst president in our history," Commager said. "Certainly no one has left...it, it is calamitous." At 86, Commager's steps have slowed a bit, but...
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The Story of World War II. (The Whole Picture Restored).
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the Second World War (1945) by Henry Steele Commager, who was at the beginning of...combat veterans. But he duplicates Commager's format in combining these...extensive narrative of his own. Commager's edition foundered because...
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Henry Steele Commager
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henry Steele Commager Henry Steele Commager (born 1902) 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...
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Commager, Henry Steele
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Commager, Henry Steele (1902–1998), educated at the University of Chicago and in Denmark and England, has been a professor of history...
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Ward, Lester Frank
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...philosophical roots of the welfare state. See also Gilded Age ; Social Darwinism ; Welfare, Federal . Bibliography Henry Steele Commager , Lester Ward and the Welfare State , 1967. Clifford H. Scott , Lester Frank Ward , 1976. Andrew Chamberlin...
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Samuel Eliot Morison
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and The Growth of the American Republic (1930, 6th rev. and enl. ed. 1969), written in collaboration with Henry Steele Commager. In 1926, Morison was appointed the official historian of Harvard and commenced to write the Tercentennial History...
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Allan Nevins
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1965. During World War II Nevins worked in several capacities to further the war effort. He collaborated with Henry Steele Commager, his Columbia colleague, to write America: The Story of a Free People (1942), an effort to argue that the...
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