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Matthew Page Andrews
1879–1947
Best remembered as a Maryland historian and editor, he wrote popular histories that aimed to bring early American and regional history to a broad audience. His work ranged from colonial Maryland and Virginia to national themes such as freedom, citizenship, and the American past.
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The Dixie Book of Days
by Matthew Page Andrews
About the author
Born in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Matthew Page Andrews was an American author, editor, and teacher whose life spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Reliable library and archival records identify him as living from 1879 to 1947, and they connect him especially with Baltimore and with historical writing about the South and the early United States.
Andrews wrote a number of history books, including works on Maryland, Virginia, and the United States. Archival descriptions also note his family connection to writer Thomas Nelson Page, and they describe him as a prominent Southern historian of the interwar years. His books were often written for general readers rather than specialists, which helps explain why his name still appears so often in library catalogs and reprints of regional history.
He died in 1947, but his work continues to surface in archives, digital libraries, and historical collections. For listeners drawn to older narrative history, his writing offers a window into how Americans of his era interpreted the nation’s founding, the South, and the meaning of civic ideals.