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 PeriodThe Great Migration to America The Development of Colonial Nationalism Conflict and IndependenceThe New Course in British Imperial PolicyThe American RevolutionFoundations of the Union and National PoliticsThe Formation of the ConstitutionThe Clash of Political PartiesThe Jeffersonian Republicans in PowerThe West and Jacksonian DemocracyThe Farmers Beyond the AppalachiansThe Middle Border and the Great WestSectional Conflict and ReconstructionThe Civil War and ReconstructionNational Growth and World PoliticsThe Political and Economic Evolution of the SouthBusiness Enterprise and the Republican Party The Development of the Great West America a World Power(1865-1900) Progressive Democracy and the World WarThe Spirit of Reform in America The New Political Democracy Industrial Democracy