Charles A. Beard
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 Charles A. Beard facts

• 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
• Beard's most influential book, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913), has been the subject of great controversy ever since its publication
• While frequently criticized for its methodology and conclusions, it was responsible for a wide-ranging reinterpretation of American history of the founding era
• He was also the co-author with his wife Mary Beard of The Rise of American Civilization (1927), which had a major influence on American historians
• An icon of the progressive school of historical interpretation, his reputation suffered during the Cold War era when the assumption of economic class conflict was dropped by most historians
• Richard Hofstadter (a consensus historian) concluded in 1968: "Today Beard's reputation stands like an imposing ruin in the landscape of American historiography
• What was once the grandest house in the province is now a ravaged survival"
• Hofstadter, nevertheless, praised Beard, saying he was "foremost among the American historians of his or any generation in the search for a usable past"