A cofounder of the New School for Social Research, he resigned from the Political Science department of Columbia University in 1917 to protest the dismissal of pacifist professors.  
A cofounder of the New School for Social Research, he resigned from the Political Science department of Columbia University in 1917 to protest the dismissal of pacifist professors.  Considered a radical early in his career, he would be reviled by liberals for his strenous opposition to FDR's administration. The author of such political science tracts as American Government and Politics, he collaborated with his wife Mary Ritter on The Rise of American Civilization and America in Mid-Passage.  Robert Brown's critique of his most famous book centered on a failure by this historian to understand the nature of colonial finance.  FTP, name this author of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.
A cofounder of the New School for Social Research, he resigned from the Political Science department of Columbia University in 1917 to protest the dismissal of pacifist professors.  
Charles A. Beard