Charles A. Beard
![Beard in 1917](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Charles_A._Beard%2C_half-length_portrait_LCCN2005690097.jpg)
An icon of the progressive school of historical interpretation, his reputation suffered during the Cold War when the assumption of economic class conflict was dropped by most American historians. The consensus historian Richard Hofstadter 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 by saying he was "foremost among the American historians of his or any generation in the search for a usable past." Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: [1904]
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