Selected Publications
- The Growth of the American Republic (with Samuel Eliot Morison, New York: Oxford University Press, 1930 ; 7th ed., 1980.. Revised and abridged edition with Samuel Eliot Morison and William E. Leuchtenburg published by Oxford University Press in 1980 as A Concise History of the American Republic, rev. 1983.
- Documents of American History (1934 and later editions through 1988)
- Theodore Parker: Yankee Crusader (1936) online edition
- Readings in American History (with Allan Nevins, 1939)
- Majority Rule and Minority Rights (1943)
- The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s (1950)
- Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954) online edition
- 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 (1976)
- The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment (Garden City, NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1977, and later reprintings.)
- Commager on Tocqueville (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993)
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