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Charles McLean Andrews
1863–1943
A leading historian of colonial America, he reshaped the way early American history was understood by placing it in the wider story of the British Empire. His Pulitzer Prize-winning work helped make him one of the most influential scholars in his field.
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The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths
by Charles McLean Andrews
British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations, 1622-1675
by Charles McLean Andrews
About the author
Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, on February 22, 1863, he studied at Trinity College and earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He taught at Bryn Mawr College and Johns Hopkins before joining Yale University, where he became a longtime professor of history.
He was best known for his scholarship on colonial America and for helping build what became known as the "imperial school" of history, which examined the American colonies in relation to British institutions and policy. Rather than treating colonial history as a simple prelude to the Revolution, his work showed how deeply early America was tied to the larger British Atlantic world.
His best-known achievement was The Colonial Period of American History, a major multivolume study that earned the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for History for its first volume. He remained an important figure in the profession for decades, including service as president of the American Historical Association, and died in New Haven on September 9, 1943.