Thomas G. Andrews


Thomas G. Andrews is an American historian.

Life

He graduated from Yale University, and University of Wisconsin–Madison with a Ph.D. in U.S. History, May 2003.
He teaches at University of Colorado, Boulder.

Awards

Andrews’s innovation is to wonder whether “energy systems” might provide a better explanation than ideology. He therefore takes a long view of the story—so long that he goes back to the Cretaceous to explain the formation of coal. Andrews’s account—less moral and more mineral than the standard one—runs something like this: Ancient sun-energy is stored beneath the earth.