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Reminiscences of Henry Steele Commager

Student, University of Chicago, 1918-1924; PhD, University of Copenhagen, 1924-1925; professor of history, New York University, 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 contemporary American historians and their works.

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