 Beard and Mary Beard had already published "The Rise of American Civilization" (1927) three years before Beale, and had given very wide publicity to a similar theme.The Beard-Beale interpretation of Reconstruction became known as "revisionism," and replaced the Dunning School for most historians, until the 1950s.The Beardian interpretation of the causes of the Civil War downplayed slavery, abolitionism, and issues of morality.