Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Charles A. Beard
Born: November 27, 1874
Died: September 1, 1948 (aged 73)
Bio: Charles Austin Beard was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century.
Known for:
- Economic Origins Of Jeffersonian Democracy (1915)
- The Economic Basis of Politics (1922)
- An introduction to the English historians (1906)