Beard
Beard names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Beard DANIEL CARTER, an American artist and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DANIEL CARTER, an American artist and writer, born in Cincinnati in 1850. He received an academic education and studied art in New York City from 1880 to 1884. He became well known as an illustrator of magazines and books. From 1893 to 1900 he was teacher of animal drawing at the Woman's School of Applied Design. He was editor of "Recreation" from 1905 to 1906. He was one of the organizers of the Boy Scouts movement of the United States ates and was national scout commissioner and honorary vice-president of the Boy Scouts of America. He was the author of many books for boys, includ- Boys' Handy Book" ing "American H (1882); "Dan Beard's Animal Book" (1907); "The Buckskin Book and Buckskin Calendar" (1911); "Shelters, Shacks and Shanties" (1914). He was chief of the school of woodcraft known as the Dan Beard Out-Door School.
Beard CHARLES AUSTIN, an American educator and historian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES AUSTIN, an American educator and historian, born at Knightstown, Ind., in 1874. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898 and took post-graduate studies at Oxford, Cornell, and Columbia universities, becoming adjunct professor of politics of Columbia University in 1907. He became successively assistant professor and professor in that subject. He resigned in 1916 and became director of the Training School for Public Service in New York City. He was a member of many historical and economic societies. His published writings include "Introduction to the English Historians" (1906); "Development of Modern Europe" (1907); "American Government and Politics" (1910); "American City Government" (1912); "Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy" (1915).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught both men in mid-career in 1921. Dan Beard, then national scout commissioner, went on to serve the Boy Scouts until his death in 1941 at 90; the organization he helped found admitted girls to its main program in 2018 as "Scouts BSA" and emerged from bankruptcy in 2022 after a roughly $2.46 billion settlement of sexual-abuse claims. Charles Austin Beard's list of books here omits the one he is now remembered for, "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" (1913), whose argument that the framers were guided by their own property interests dominated American history teaching for decades before being sharply attacked in the 1950s. He also became president of the American Historical Association in 1933 and, after 1941, an unpopular critic of Roosevelt's road to war; he died in 1948.
Written for this edition, 2026.