Charles Austin Beard 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.
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