Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrious, 72-year-old Professor Charles McLean Andrews of Yale won the Pulitzer Prize with the first volume of his monumental re-examination into U. S. beginnings: The Colonial Period of American History. That book, running to 551 well-filled pages, the most ambitious of the author's 28 historical studies, opened with a phrase of classic serenity: "In fashioning this work," said Professor Andrews, "I think it worthwhile to begin whether I am able to finish it or not." Last week Professor Andrews took one long step toward completing his history when he offered a second volume, bringing...
...information packed into the two volumes of The Colonial Period of American History is no rehash of conventional studies, representing rather the fruit of a lifetime of original research and the application of a fresh approach to one of the most perplexing of U. S. historical problems. By no means easy reading, the books contain an abundance of statistics, detailed records of shifting English colonial policies, explicit accounts of those lawsuits, moral problems, market prices, class struggles and boundary disputes that filled the lives of God-fearing U. S. forebears. Major innovation is in the point of view. "To discover...
First volume of The Colonial Period began with a sweeping summary of the whole epoch of exploration that opened with the expeditions of Prince Henry of Portugal from 1394 to 1460, together with an excellent account of the joint-stock companies, the Merchant Adventurers of New England, who paved the way for England's colonial expansion. Professor Andrews usually finds in the English adventurer companies sober self-interest pulling the wires, with small ports out to smash London monopolies, and England in turn encouraging colonization to smash Spain. The trading companies themselves were usually split with factional fights among...
...same period Connecticut had been illegally organized, although the colonists believed they had a valid charter. It, too, was in danger of the King's vengeance when Charles returned to the throne. Diplomatic Governor Winthrop of Connecticut organized a demonstration of loyalty to the King, then rushed to London, gained membership in the Royal Society through his scientific interests, borrowed ?500 on Connecticut's produce to finance his wire-pulling, actively cultivated English gentlemen who had no compromising connection with the rebels. The result was that Connecticut and Rhode Island received liberal charters guaranteeing them freedom of worship...
...well as early U. S. history, considers the abdication of Edward VIII a wise decision without precedent in the interests of the British Empire. No longer lecturing, working only with graduate students, popular, retiring Professor Andrews at 73 looks forward to publishing the third volume of The Colonial Period in American History next March, the fourth in 1938. Beyond that he says he can promise nothing...