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Charles McLean Andrews
1863–1943
A major historian of colonial America, he helped readers see the early American colonies as part of the wider British Empire. His Pulitzer-winning work brought fresh scale and clarity to a subject that had often been told more narrowly.
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British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675
by Charles McLean Andrews
The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths
by Charles McLean Andrews
About the author
Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1863, Charles McLean Andrews became one of the leading American historians of his generation. He studied at Trinity College and Johns Hopkins University, then taught at several universities before joining Yale, where he served as professor of American history from 1910 to 1931.
Andrews is best known for his work on colonial American history. Rather than treating the colonies in isolation, he placed them in the larger setting of the British imperial system, an approach that made his scholarship especially influential. His four-volume The Colonial Period of American History became his signature achievement, and the first volume won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1935.
He died in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1943. Today he is remembered as a careful, ambitious scholar whose writing helped reshape how early American history was studied and understood.