Charles McLean Andrews

Born in 1863, Charles McLean Andrews was an American historian and teacher best known for his studies of colonial America and the British Empire. He taught at Bryn Mawr before joining Yale, where he became one of the most influential scholars in early American history.

Andrews was especially interested in seeing the American colonies as part of a larger imperial world rather than as isolated beginnings of the United States. That wider perspective made his work stand out and helped change the way later historians approached the colonial period.

His books were widely respected, and The Colonial Period of American History received the Pulitzer Prize for History. He died in 1943, leaving behind a body of work that still matters to readers interested in the political and intellectual roots of early America.