Howard K. Beale

Howard Kennedy Beale ( born April 8, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, † December 27, 1959 ) was an American historian, known for work on the Reconstruction era in the southern United States. He was a liberal and civil rights activist who advocated academic freedom.

Beale studied at the University of Chicago with a bachelor 's degree in English in 1921 and received his doctorate at Harvard University. He was from 1935 professor at the University of North Carolina, and from 1948 to 1959 at the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

Beale was known by revisionist studies of the Reconstruction era, in which he accounted for in the sense of the school of Charles A. Beard economic interests as the driving forces, rather than political or constitutional issues, and in the 1930s criticized the then dominant Dunning School. After his thesis Beale, these were particularly financiers and industrialists from the North East of the USA, who took influence on the Republicans to their interests komomischen enforce and reduce the influence of the Southern landowners and farmers in the Midwest.

He also published a book about the foreign policy of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the diaries of Navy Minister of Abraham Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Lincoln and Attorney General ( Attorney General ) Edward Bates. Welles' diary was indeed published in 1911, but was still edited by the latter and his son; Beale is issued after the original.

Writings

  • On Rewriting Reconstruction History, American Historical Review, 45, 1940, 807-827
  • Publisher The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859-1866, Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1933
  • Are American Teachers Free: An Analysis of Restraints Upon the Freedom of Teaching in American Schools, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936
  • A History of Freedom of Teaching in American Schools, New York: Scribner's Sons, 1941
  • Published by Charles A. Beard: An Appraisal, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1954
  • Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1956
  • The Critical Year: A Study of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction, New York: F. Ungar, 1958
  • Publisher Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, New York: WW Norton and Company, 1960
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