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BEARD, CHARLES AUSTIN: 1874-1948

Charles Austin Beard, distinguished American historian, son of William Henry and Mary Payne Beard, was born in Knightstown, Ind., on Nov. 27, 1874.

He was educated in the local schools and graduated from De Pauw University in 1898. He studied at Oxford and Cornell and received his A.M. from Columbia in 1903, and his Ph.D. in 1904. On Mar. 8, 1900, he married Mary Ritter of Indianapolis, who had been graduated from De Pauw one year before him. Mary Ritter Beard became not only the mother of his two children but also his fellow worker in the field of American social and political history and joint-author of several of his most significant works.

From 1910 to 1917Charles Austin Beard was a member of the Columbia University faculty. In 1917 he became director of the Training School for Public Service, New York, and continued there until 1922. In that year he became adviser to the Institute of Municipal Research at Tokyo, and after the earthquake of 1923 he became adviser to Count Geto, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs.

In later years the Beards resided at New Milford, Conn. He spent this period mainly in research and writing in his field. He died on Sept. 1, 1948.

Besides the titles listed, Dr. Beard edited and compiled many works on history and government and was the author and co-author of many textbooks.

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The Industrial Revolution, with a Preface by F. York Powell. London, 1901.
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The Office of Justice of the Peace in England in Its Origin and Development. New York, 1904.
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An Introduction to the English Historians. New York, 1906.
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The Development of Modern Europe. An Introduction to the Study of Current History (withJ. H. Robinson). Boston, 1907-08. 2 vols.
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Readings in Modern European History; A Collection of Extracts from the Sources Chosen with the Purpose of Illustrating Some of the Chief Phases of the Development of Europe During the Last Two Hundred Years (withJ. H. Robinson). Boston, 1908-09. 2 vols.
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European Sobriety in the Presence of the Balkan Crisis. New York, 1908.
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Politics. (A Lecture). New York, 1908.
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American Government and Politics. New York, 1910.
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Modern European History. New York.
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Party Government in the United States. New York.
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Expansion of the United States. New York.
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Industrialism and Democracy. New York.
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English History to the Tudors. New York.
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English History from James I. New York.
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City Manager Plan of Municipal Government.
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Documents on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum and Recall (withBirl Earl Shultz). New York, 1912.
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The Supreme Court and the Constitution. New York, 1912.
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American City Government; A Survey of Newer Tendencies. New York, 1912.
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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York, 1913.
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Contemporary American History, 1877-1913. New York, 1914.
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American Citizenship (withMary Ritter Beard). New York, 1914.
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Outlines of European History (withJ. H. Robinson). Boston, 1914. Vol. 2.
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Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy. New York, 1915.
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Six Years' Experience with the Direct Primary in New York. National Governments and the World War (withF. A. Ogg). New York.
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History of the American People (withW. C. Bagley). New York, 1920.
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History of Europe, Our Own Times, the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Opening of the Twentieth Century and the World War (withJ. H. Robinson). Boston, 1921.
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Our Old World Background (withW. C. Bagley). New York, 1922.
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Cross Currents in Europe To-day. Boston, 1922.
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The Economic Basis of Politics. New York, 1922.
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The Administration and Politics of Tokyo; A Survey and Opinions. New York, 1923.
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Government Research, Past, Present and Future. New York, 1926.
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The Rise of American Civilization (withMary Ritter Beard). New York, 1927. 2 vols.
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The American Party Battle. New York, 1928.
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The Balkan Pivot–Yugoslavia; A Study in Government and Administration (withGeorge Radin). New York, 1929.
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The American Leviathan; The Republic in the Machine Age (withWilliam Beard). New York, 1930.
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Charter for the Social Sciences in the Schools. New York, 1932.
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The Myth of Rugged American Individualism. New York, 1932.
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The Navy: Defense or Portent. New York, 1932.
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The Future Comes; A Study of the New Deal (withG. H. E. Smith). New York, 1933.
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The Nature of the Social Sciences in Relation to the Objectives of Instruction. New York, 1934.
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The Idea of National Interest; An Analytical Study in American Foreign Policy (withG. H. E. Smith). New York, 1934.
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The Open Door at Home; A Trial Philosophy of National Interest (withG. H. E. Smith). New York, 1934.
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The Recovery Program (1933-1934). A Study of the Depression and the Fight to Overcome It (withG. H. E. Smith). New York, 1934.
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The Presidents in American History. New York, 1935.
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Schools in the Story of Culture (withWilliam G. Cart).
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The Discussion of Human Affairs; An Inquiry into the Nature of the Statements, Assertions, Allegations, Claims, Heats, Tempers, Distempers, Dogmas, and Contentions Which Appear When Human Affairs Are Discussed and into the Possibility of Putting Some Rhyme and Reason into Processes of Discussion. New York, 1936.
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Annual Guide to American Government and Politics. New York, 1936.
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The Devil Theory of War; An Inquiry into the Nature of History and the Possibility of Keeping Out of War. New York, 1936.
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Jefferson, Corporations and the Constitution. Washington, D. C., 1936.
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Unemployment and Adult Education.
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The Making of American Civilization (withMary Ritter Beard). New York, 1937.
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History of Civilization; Our Own Age (withJ. H. Robinson and D. V. Smith). Boston, 1937.
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America Today (withW. C. Bagley and R. F. Nichols). New York, 1938.
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America Yesterday (withW. C. Bagley and R. F. Nichols). New York, 1938.
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America Yesterday and Today (withW. C. Bagley and R. F. Nichols). New York, 1938.
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America in Midpassage (withMary Ritter Beard). New York, 1939. (Vol. 3 of The Rise of American Civilization.)
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Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels; An Estimate of American Foreign Policy. New York, 1939.
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A Foreign Policy for America. New York, 1940.
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The Old Deal and the New (withG. H. E. Smith). New York, 1940.
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American Party Battle. New York, 1941.
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Public Policy and the General Welfare. New York, 1941
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The American Spirit; A Study of the Idea of Civilization in the United States (withMary Ritter Beard). New York, 1942. (Vol. 4 of The Rise of American Civilization.)
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The Republic; Conversations on Fundamentals. New York, 1943.
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Basic History of the United States (withMary Ritter Beard). Garden City, N.Y., 1944.
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President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War 1941. New Haven, 1948.
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1914

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. vii, 397 p. ; 20 cm.

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1877-1913

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CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN HISTORY
1877-1913

CHARLES A. BEARD

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PREFACE

IN teaching American government and politics, I constantly meet large numbers of students who have no knowledge of the most elementary facts of American history since the Civil War. When they are taken to task for their neglect, they reply that there is no textbook dealing with the period, and that the smaller histories are sadly deficient in their treatment of our age.

It is to supply the student and general reader with a handy guide to contemporary history that I have undertaken this volume. I have made no attempt to present an "artistically balanced" account of the last thirty-five years, but have sought rather to furnish a background for the leading issues of current politics and to enlist the interest of the student in the history of the most wonderful period in American development. The book is necessarily somewhat "impressionistic" and in part it is based upon materials which have not been adequately sifted and evaluated. Nevertheless, I have endeavored to be accurate and fair, and at the same time to invite on the part of the student some of that free play of the mind which Matthew Arnold has shown to be so helpful in literary criticism.

Although the volume has been designed, in a way, as a textbook, I have thrown aside the methods of the almanac and chronicle, and, at the risk of displeasing the reader who expects a little about everything (including the Sioux war and the San Francisco earthquake), page: vi[View Page vi]Switch to Image Mode CLOSE Page vi Page vi I have omitted with a light heart many of the staples of history in order to treat more fully the matters which seem important from the modern point of view. I have also refused to mar the pages with black type, paragraph numbers, and other "apparatus" which tradition has prescribed for "manuals." Detailed election statistics and the guide to additional reading I have placed in an appendix.

In the preparation of the book, I have made extensive use of the volumes by Professors Dunning, Sparks, Dewey, and Latané, in the American Nation Series, and I wish to acknowledge once for all my deep debt to them. My colleague, Mr. B. B. Kendrick, read all of the proofs and saved me from many an error. Professor R. L. Schuyler gave me the benefit of his criticisms on part of the proof. To Dr. Louis A. Mayers, of the College of the City of New York, I am under special obligations for valuable suggestions as to arrangement and for drafting a large portion of Chapter III. The shortcomings of the book fall to me, but I shall be recompensed for my indiscretions, if this volume is speedily followed by a number of texts, large and small, dealing with American history since the Civil War. It is showing no disrespect to our ancestors to be as much interested in our age as they were in theirs; and the doctrine that we can know more about Andrew Jackson whom we have not seen than about Theodore Roosevelt whom we have seen is a pernicious psychological error.

CHARLES A. BEARD.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
November, 1913.

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BEARD, CHARLES AUSTIN: 1874-1948

CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN HISTORY
1877-1913

CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN HISTORY
1877-1913

CHARLES A. BEARD

New York
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1914 All rights reserved

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BEARD, CHARLES AUSTIN: 1874-1948

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN HISTORY 1877-1913

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN HISTORY1877-1913

CHARLES A. BEARD

New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1914 All rights reserved

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN HISTORY
1877-1913

CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN HISTORY
1877-1913

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1914 All rights reserved