Charles A. Beard (November 27, 1874–September 1, 1948) was one of the most daring and innovative historians of his day. He received his PhD from Columbia in 1904, and taught there until 1917, before helping to establish the New School for Social Research. In works such as An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913) and Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy (1915), he stressed the part played by economic forces in the development of American institutions. With his wife, Mary Ritter Beard, he also co-authored the classic text book, The Rise of American Civilization (1927).

Bibliography

The office of justice of the peace in England, in its origin and development, by Charles Austin Beard. New York: Columbia University Press, Macmillan Company, agents: London: P. S. King & Son, 1904.

European sobriety in the presence of the Balkan crisis, by Charles Austin Beard. New York: American Branch of the Association for International Conciliation, 1908

American government and politics, by Charles A. Beard. New York: Macmillan, 1910.

American city government; a survey of newer tendencies, by Charles A. Beard. New York: Century, 1912.

The Supreme court and the Constitution. New York: Macmillan, 1912; Reprint, Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 1999.

American citizenship, by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard. New York: Macmillan, 1914.

Contemporary American history, 1877-1913, by Charles A. Beard. New York: Macmillan, 1914.

National governments and the world war. New York: Macmillan, 1919.

The history of the American people, by Charles A. Beard and William C. Bagley. New York: Macmillan, 1920.

History of the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1921

The economic basis of politics, by Charles A. Beard. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1922; Reprint, with a new introduction by Clyde W. Barrow. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002.

Economic origins of Jeffersonian democracy, by Charles A. Beard. New York: Macmillan, 1927.

The rise of American civilization. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1927.

Whither mankind: a panorama of modern civilization. Edited by Charles A. Beard. New York: Longmans, Green, 1928.

The Balkan pivot: Yugoslavia; a study in government and administration, by Charles A. Beard and George Radin. New York: Macmillan, 1929.

The American leviathan: the republic in the machine age, by Charles A. Beard and William Beard. New York: Macmillan, 1930.

A century of progress, edited by Charles A. Beard. "First edition." Chicago and New York, Harper & Brothers in coöperation with a Century of progress exposition, 1932.

America faces the future, edited by Charles A. Beard. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932.

The myth of rugged American individualism, by Charles A. Beard. New York: John Day, 1932.

The future comes; a study of the New Deal, by Charles A. Beard and George H.E. Smith. New York: Macmillan, 1933.

Whither mankind: a panorama of modern civilization. Edited by Charles A. Beard. New York City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1934.

The idea of national interest: an analytical study in American foreign policy, by Charles A. Beard, with the collaboration of G.H.E. Smith. New York: Macmillan, 1934; Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977.

The nature of the social sciences in relation to objectives of instruction, by Charles A. Beard. New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's Sons, 1934.

An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, by Charles A. Beard, with new introduction. New York, The Macmillan company, 1935; Reprint, Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2001.

The presidents in American history, by Charles A. Beard. New York: J. Messner, inc., c1935; Reprint, Charles A. Beard's the presidents in American history: George Washington to George Bush. Rev. ed., updated by William Beard and Detlev Vagts. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: J. Messner, 1989.

The devil theory of war; an inquiry into the nature of history and the possibility of keeping out of war, by Charles A. Beard. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1936.

Jefferson, corporations and the Constitution, by Dr. Charles A. Beard. Washington: National Home Library Foundation, 1936.

America in midpassage. New York: Macmillan, 1939

Giddy minds and foreign quarrels; an estimate of American foreign policy, by Charles A. Beard. New York: Macmillan, 1939.

The making of American civilization, by Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard; color illustrations by Stanley M. Arthurs. New York: Macmillan, 1939.

A foreign policy for America. New York, London: A.A. Knopf, 1940.

The American spirit, a study of the idea of civilization in the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1942.

American foreign policy in the making, 1932-1940; a study in responsibilities, by Charles A. Beard. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1946.

President Roosevelt and the coming of the war, 1941; a study in appearances and realities. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948; Reprint, with a new introduction by Campbell Craig. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2003.

The office of justice of the peace in England, in its origin and development. New York, B. Franklin, 1962; Reprint, Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2001.

The enduring Federalist, edited and analyzed by Charles Beard. New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1959.

More than a historian: the political and economic thought of Charles A. Beard, by Clyde W. Barrow. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000.