C. (Charles) Andrews

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C. (Charles) Andrews

A leading historian of colonial America, this Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar helped reshape how early American history was understood by placing it within the wider British Empire.

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The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison : containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the treaty of Ghent. Also a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815.

The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison : containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the treaty of Ghent. Also a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815.

by C. (Charles) Andrews

About the author

Born in 1863 and educated at Amherst College, he became one of the most respected American historians of his era. He taught at several universities before joining Yale, where his work on colonial history earned lasting influence.

He is best known for The Colonial Period of American History, a multivolume study that won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1935. His scholarship is often credited with shifting attention from a narrowly local view of the colonies to their place in the larger imperial world.

He died in 1943, but his books and essays continued to matter to students of early America. Readers interested in thoughtful, deeply researched history will find in his work a clear and ambitious attempt to explain how colonial America fit into a much bigger story.