The Fathers of New England

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Charles McLean Andrews (1863-1943) was one of the most distinguished American historians of his time and widely recognized as a leading authority on American colonial history. He is especially known as a leader of the Imperial school of historians who studied, and generally praised the British Empire in the 18th century. 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 College (1889-1907) and Johns Hopkins University (1907-1910) before going to Yale University. He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1925. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Andrews won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1935 for Volumes 1 and 4 of his work The Colonial Period of American History. He was awarded the gold medal, given once a decade, by the National Institute of Arts and Letters for his work in history, and he received honorary doctorates from Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, and Lehigh Universities.

Genre: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) (fancy, right?)