The Rise of American Civilization. Volume I., The Agricultural Era. Volume II., The Industrial Era.

Abstract

"These two publications will be conceded to be in perfect alignment with synthetic scholarship, the twentieth century's demand on intellectual achievement… While [they] differ in form, substance, style, and purpose, they are both concerned with American progress and have sifted the documents and sources of three centuries... Professor Beard and his wife seem most concerned with economic growth and with political development national and international... Professor Parrington, in Main Currents in American Thought, is concerned with the progress of the American people and the development of democracy in the United states as expressed by literature."