History of the United States, Vol. III
Author: first_name: Charles Austin
last_name: Beard
first_name: Mary Ritter
last_name: Beard
Language: English
Year: 1921

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he met and eventually married Mary Ritter Beard, one of the founders of the first Greek-letter society for women, Kappa Alpha Theta. Many of his books were written in collaboration with his wife, whose own interests lay in feminism and the labor union m