Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 - September 1, 1948) was, (along with Frederick Jackson Turner) the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he met and eventually married one of the founders of the first Greek-letter society for women, Kappa Alpha Theta Wikipedia
Before the appearance of J. Allen Smith's (1907) and Beard's (1913) critiques of the Constitution, the dominant historical perspective on the Founding Fathers was Bancroft's. www.iefd.org/articles/class_and_pluralism.php
The article discusses the views of Charles Beard and his critics and focuses on recent quantitative findings that explain the making of the Constitution. eh.net/encyclopedia/article/mcguire.constitution.us.econo...
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Charles A. Beard. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A%2e_Beard
