Charles McLean Andrews
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Charles McLean Andrews (February 22, 1863 – September 9, 1943) was an American historian and professor.
Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, he received his A.B. from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 1884 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1889. He was a professor at Bryn Mawr (1889-1907) and Johns Hopkins University (1907-1910) before going to Yale University. He was the Farnam Professor of American History at Yale from 1910-1931.
He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1925. He held various memberships including the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Historical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Phi Beta Kappa. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Andrews won the Pulitzer Prize in 1935 for Volumes 1 & 4 of his work The Colonial Period of American History.
Andrews died in New Haven, Connecticut.
Among his published works:
- The Colonial Period of American History (4 volumes)
- Colonial Self-Government
- Colonial Background of the American Revolution
- The Fathers of New England
- Colonial Folkways
- Jonathan Dickinson's Journal, edited with Evangeline Walker Andrews
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