History of the United States, Vol. I by Charles Austin Beard and Mary Ritter Beard
by Mc bill frank · 14 episodes
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Charles Austin 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 movement (Woman as a Force in History, 1946).In 1921, Charles and Mary Beard published their History of the United States. A contemporaneous...
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Summary of Colonial Period
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18 min
Colonial Relations with the British Government
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8 min
The Effects of Warfare on the Colonies
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The Development of Colonial Nationalism/Relations with the Indians and the French
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14 min
The Evolution in Political Institutions
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7 min
The Colonial Press
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7 min
Schools and Colleges
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12 min
Social and Political Progress/The Leadership of the Churches
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19 min
Industrial and Commercial Development
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16 min
Colonial Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce/The Land and the Westward Movement
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12 min
The Process of Colonization
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The Colonial Peoples
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The Great Migration to America/The Agencies of American Colonization
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Preface