Charles Beard

A parcel of land in the Eastborough Addition was being considered as the primary site for a new Central Avenue Christian Church. Dr. Dale Newland of Parsons, the church's general board chairman, confirmed that 3 1/2 acres of land in the addition probably would be recommended for purchase by the ...

Geneva Beard Allen, 88, of Charleston, passed away Thursday, March 15, 2018, at home after a long illness. She was preceded in death by her siblings: Elsie Hamrick, Esther Ramsey, Woodrow Beard, Charles Beard and Kenneth Beard. She is survived by her husband, Chester Allen of Charleston; ...

Dr. Albert Einstein, front row, second from right, is pictured with a group of other notables just before he spoke on international relations at a dinner in honor of him and historian Dr. Charles Beard, and Dr. Jacob Schurman, former president of Cornell University, Jan. 25, 1932, in Los Angeles. Front row, from ...

While James Madison in Federalist number 10 declared that the most “common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property,” many such as historian Charles Beard and political scientist Michael Parenti see the resulting constitution devised by the framers as ...

Holy Savior Menard High School seventh-grader Charles Beard conducts a science experiment on thirty-two students to see hot and cold temperatures affect heart rates. Students performed 10 minutes of intense exercise at FIXX Cycling. Melinda Martinez/The Town Talk. by Taboola by Taboola.

In the first half of the 20th century, a group of Progressive Era historians—Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles Beard, V.L. Parrington—had argued that the history of American politics hinged on a series of social and political conflicts. In the prosperity and calm of the postwar years, historians embraced the ...

And isn't that what history is supposed to do? A century ago, when the modern historical profession was born, its leading lights assumed that informing the broad public was central to their job. Charles Beard, Carl Becker, and James Harvey Robinson all wrote monographs and textbooks that sold hundreds ...

The Progressive historians — Charles Beard and his disciples — taught that politics reflected the clash of class interests, not ideological differences. The Civil War, Beard wrote, should be understood as a transfer of national power from an agricultural ruling class in the South to the industrial bourgeoisie of ...

When, a few years later, Charles Beard suggested that the same kind of considerations may have played a role in the writing of the Constitution, he unleashed a political storm against his book that had few if any parallels in our history. Then-President Taft publicly denounced this unseemly muckraking as ...