In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt addressed the American Historical Association to call for American history to be written as compelling stories of literary quality. Editor Allen Johnson of Yale University responded by publishing the Chronicles of America series: 50 succinct volumes on regional and thematic American history.

The Fathers of New England is volume #6 of the Chronicles series and concerns the Anglo settlers of New England. The radical religious sectarians who settled Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay were particularly devoted to setting up a society in contrast to what they saw as the corruptions of the Old World by Roman Catholic culture, and John Winthrop memorably dedicated New England as a "shining city on a hill" that would serve as a model of a reformed society. The intellectual tradition of these remarkable people still defines the region. Charles Andrews, the author of the volume, was a Pulitzer Prize winning historian of New England in the colonial period.

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