The New Home Library A Basic History of the United States Beard

A Basic History of the United States
The New Home Library, 1944

A Basic History of the United States 

The New Home Library
Charles A. Beard (1874-1948), Mary R. Beard (1876-1958)
The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia PA, 1944
x + 508 pages, 8-1/8 x 5-5/8, 21 cm

A Basic History of the United States: Prefatory Note

With this book we bring to a close our many years of cooperative efforts in seeking to interpret the long course of American history.  As its title indicates, the volume deals with fundamental activities, ideas, and interests which have entered into the development of American society from the colonial period to the contemporary age.  Whatever may be added to the record here presented, a consideration of these activities, ideas, and interests is basic, we believe, to any understanding of American history.

Although compact in form and directed to the general public, the book is no mere summary or digest of our previous works.  Nor is it a collection of excerpts from any or all of them.  On the contrary it is newly designed and newly written to express the historical judgment which we have reached after more than forty years devoted to the study of documents and the observation of life at first hand in all parts of the United States, rural and urban, and in parts of the Old World and the Orient.

Charles A. Beard
Mary A. Beard
New Milford, Connecticut

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