Beginnings of the American People
by Carl Lotus Becker
Beginnings of the American People is part of the Riverside History of the United States series covering the period from 1492-1783. Becker discusses the discovery of the New World, the rise of the plantations, the growth of the American culture and the Revolutionary War. The colonies are seen as offshoots of Europe with their environmental issues, their arguments with neighboring colonies, and the growing conflict with King George
Carl Lotus Becker
He was born in Waterloo, Iowa. He studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Frederick Jackson Turner was his doctoral advisor there. Becker got his Ph.D. in 1907. He was John Wendell Anderson Professor of History in the Department of History at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1923. Cornell has recognized his work as an educator by naming one of its five new residential colleges the Carl Becker House
