Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin was an American historian of Scottish immigrant parents. He received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Michigan. By 1903 he was a respected historian and in 1914 he was President of the American Historical Association. He became an advocate for historians giving guidance on world events and toured the United Kingdom to support its efforts in World War I. His A Constitutional History of the United States won the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for History. His brother, James C. McLaughlin, was a U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1907-1932. He was the son-in-law of longtime University of Michigan president James B. Angell, having married Angell's daughter Lois in 1890