Charles McLean Andrews

Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D, L.H.D. (1863 – 1943) was an American historian at Columbia University and Yale University professor whose "Colonial Period of American History, vol. 1 of 4," won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1935. He is author of the 1908 Johns Hopkins Press publication titled, "British committees, commissions, and councils of trade and plantations, 1622-1675," co-author of the 1910 publication titled "A bibliography of history for schools and libraries: with description and critical annotations," author of the 1912 publication, The Colonial Period,

He wrote 102 major scholarly articles and books, as well as over 360 book reviews, newspaper articles, and short items. He is especially known as a leader of the "Imperial school" of historians who studied, and generally admired, the efficiency of the British Empire in the 18th century. Kross argues:

His intangible legacy is twofold. First is his insistence that all history be based on facts and that the evidence be found, organized, and weighed. Second is his injunction that colonial America can never be understood without taking into account England.