1874-1948
Historian

National Reputation.

Charles A. Beard has had an enduring influence upon the interpretation of the American past. He was born on a farm in Indiana and educated at a small Quaker academy nearby. After graduatingfrom DePauw University, he undertook graduate study at Oxford, where he helped to found Ruskin Hall, a workingmen's college
He returned to the United States and married Mary Ritter, who later became his lifelong collaborator After receiving a doctorate from Columbia University in 1904, he accepted a faculty position there, where he was a popular teacher and highly productive scholar until 1917 Among his influential historical texts produced during this period were American Government and Politics (1910), American City Government (1912), Outlines of European History (1912-1914), The Supreme Court and the Constitution (1912), American Citizenship (1914), and Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy (1915) However, his fame began in earnest in 1913 with the publication of An Economic...