Henry Steele Commager - Amherst, MA
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A terracotta tile plaque, a tribute to the 20th century American historian and prolific author Henry Steele Commager, is located on the front of a building at 40 Main Street in Amherst, MA.
Waymark Code: WM1117Q
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 07/28/2019
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A series of nine terracotta tile plaques created by Judith Inglese and Helena Dooley Metha in 1999 honor poets and writers who have a connection to Amherst, MA.
A 14" by 12" terracotta tile plaque contains the 1991 quote by Henry Steele Commager:
FIRST RATE MEN AND WOMEN
WILL NOT AND CANNOT
WORK UNDER CONDITIONS
FIXED BY THOSE
WHO ARE AFRAID
OF
IDEAS.
HENRY STEELE COMMAGER
|
The word IDEAS is centered in a starburst design.
Henry Steele Commager was an American historian and author of 40 books and more than 700 essays and reviews. He was an outspoken critic of McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, and an ardent advocate for civil liberties and one of the most influential intellectuals of the 20th century.
He was born on October 25, 1902 in Pittsburgh, PA graduted from the University of Chicago, and was a Professor of History at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College.
The books by Henry Steele Commager include:
Oxford History of the United States (1930)
Theodore Parker: Yankee Crusader (1936)
The Heritage of America: Readings in American History for High Schools (1939)
Majority Rule and Minority Rights (1943)
The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s (1950)
America's Robert E. Lee (1951)
Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954)
The Standard Building of Our Nation (1955)
The Spirit of Seventy-six: The Story of The American Revolution As Told By Participants (1958)
The Search for a Usable Past and Other Essays in Historiography (1965)
Freedom and Order: A Commentary on the American Political Scene (1966)
The Defeat of America: War, Presidential Power, and the National Character (1974)
Jefferson, Nationalism, and the Enlightenment (1975)
The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment (1977)
The Growth of the American Republic (1980)
A Concise History of the American Republic (1980)
The Civil War: Day by Day (1989)
The Blue and the Gray (1991)
Pocket History of the United States (1992)
Commager on Tocqueville (1993)
Witness to America: Documentary History of the United States from Its Discovery to Modern Times (1997)