Edward Potts Cheyney

Edward Potts Cheyney (1861–1947) was an American historian who taught European and English history at the University of Pennsylvania for more than four decades. He specialized in the social and economic history of England and in the Tudor period, writing An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England (1901), A Short History of England and the two-volume History of England from the Defeat of the Armada to the Death of Elizabeth. He also edited source collections for students and wrote European Background of American History. In 1923 he served as president of the American Historical Association, where his address set out what he called laws of history.