H.L. Mencken: References & Edit History
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Carl Bode, Mencken (1969, reprinted 1986); Douglas C. Stenerson, H.L. Mencken (1971); Charles A. Fecher, Mencken (1978); and William Raymond Manchester, Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken, 2nd ed. (1986), are biographies. Criticism includes George H. Douglas, H.L. Mencken, Critic of American Life (1978); and Douglas C. Stenerson (ed.), Critical Essays on H.L. Mencken (1987). Mencken’s diaries, which were sealed for 25 years after his death, cover the years between 1930 and 1948 and were collected in Charles A. Fecher (ed.), The Diary of H.L. Mencken (1989).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Foundation for Economic Education - H. L. Mencken, America's Wittiest Defender of Liberty. | Jul 13, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 25, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - H.L. Mencken's Cynical Commentary Made Americans LaughLittle Did They Know. | May 25, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of The Mencken House. | Mar 05, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Independent - More Arrows Bouncing Off the Great H. L. Mencken (PDF). | Dec 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Foundation for Economic Education - H. L. Mencken, America's Wittiest Defender of Liberty. | Oct 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Public Library Archives and Manuscripts - H.L. Mencken papers. | Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| Added more information about the racist and anti-Semitic views expressed in Mencken's private diaries. | Apr 11, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of North Carolina - Documenting the American South - Henry Louis Mencken. | Mar 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mises Institute - H.L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian. | Jan 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of The Mencken House. | Dec 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Libertarianism.org - Feisty Free Spirit: A Biography of H. L. Mencken. | Jun 06, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The National Endowment for the Humanities - H. L. Mencken as a Boy? Oh, Boy! | Mar 17, 2023 | ||
| Link added. | Mar 17, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 28, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 05, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Amercian Society of Authors and Writers - H. L. Mencken. | Apr 08, 2014 | ||
| Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Henry L. Mencken. | Jan 05, 2009 | ||
| Documents added to article. | Jun 04, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Jan 04, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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