Howard K. Beale

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

Beale graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in English in 1921 and received her PhD from 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 became known through revisionist studies of the Reconstruction era, in which he identified economic interests as driving forces in the spirit of the school of Charles A. Beard , instead of political or constitutional issues, and in the 1930s he criticized the then dominant Dunning School. According to his Beale thesis , these were in particular financiers and industrialists from the northeastern United States, who exerted influence through the Republicans in order to enforce their economic interests and to drive back the influence of the southern landowners and farmers in the Midwest.

He also published a book on the foreign policy of US President Theodore Roosevelt and the diaries of Marine minister of Abraham Lincoln , Gideon Welles , and Lincoln's Attorney General ( Attorney General ) Edward Bates . Welles' diary had already appeared in 1911, but had been edited by him and his son; Beale published it after the original.

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  • 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
  • Publisher 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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SURNAME Beale, Howard K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beale, Howard Kennedy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1959