<sod>Commager taught at [[New York University]] from 1930 to 1936, at [[Columbia University]] from 1936 to 1956, and at [[Amherst College]] in [[Massachusetts]] from 1956 to 1992.  He retired in 1992 from the John Woodruff Simpson Lectureship, and died, aged 95, in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]].<eod>
<sod>Commager taught at [[New York University]] from 1930 to 1936, at [[Columbia University]] from 1936 to 1956, and at [[Amherst College]] in [[Massachusetts]] from 1956 to 1992.  He retired in 1992 from the John Woodruff Simpson Lectureship, and died, aged 95, in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]].  Commager emphasized to his generations of students that historians must write not only for one another but for a wider audience.<eod>