History of the United States

"History of the United States" is a monumental synthesis of American History subsequently produced by Charles A. Beard and his wife, Mary R. Beard. This book covers a period of more than 350 years, from the beginning of American Colonization to the establishment of The League of Nations in 1920.

Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948) was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century. For a while he was a history professor at Columbia University but his influence came from hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. His works included a radical re-evaluation of the founding fathers of the United States, who he believed were motivated more by economics than by philosophical principles.

Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958) was an American historian and archivist, who played an important role in the women's suffrage movement and was a lifelong advocate of social justice through educational and activist roles in both the labor and woman's rights movements.

Contents:

The Colonial Period

The Great Migration to America

The Development of Colonial Nationalism

Conflict and Independence

The New Course in British Imperial Policy

The American Revolution

Foundations of the Union and National Politics

The Formation of the Constitution

The Clash of Political Parties

The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power

The West and Jacksonian Democracy

The Farmers Beyond the Appalachians

The Middle Border and the Great West

Sectional Conflict and Reconstruction

The Civil War and Reconstruction

National Growth and World Politics

The Political and Economic Evolution of the South

Business Enterprise and the Republican Party

The Development of the Great West

America a World Power(1865-1900)

Progressive Democracy and the World War

The Spirit of Reform in America

The New Political Democracy

Industrial Democracy