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The grave of Henry Steele Commager is marked by a marble headstone with a rounded top. The headstone has a quote from the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. It is inscribed:

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)