Thomas Andrews

Thomas G. Andrews specializes in the intersection of social and environmental history in the Mountain West.  The recipient of grants from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and other organizations, his past research has yielded articles on assimilation and native resistance in federal day schools for Native American children, intercultural conflict and cooperation between Hispanos and Native Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, and the relationship between tourism, labor, and landscape from the Gold Rush through the Progressive Era.  Andrews' first book, a still-untitled environmental history of the half-century of labor-management conflict in the southern Colorado coalfields which culminated in the Ludlow Massacre and Ten Days' War of 1914, will be published by Harvard University Press in fall, 2008.  Andrews hopes eventually to write a history of animals in America as well as an examination of relationships between race, nature, and suburbanization in twentieth-century America.  He is particularly proud of his involvement in educating current and future history teachers through Teaching American History grants, the National Center for History in the Schools, and UCD's programs. Born and raised in Boulder, Thomas lives in Denver with his wife and baby boy.