Charles A. Hale

Following his retirement in 1997, he and his wife moved to Seattle, where he died of congestive heart failure on September 29, 2008.

In his obituary of Hale, Eric Van Young wrote that "with the death of Charles Adams Hale, historians of Mexico in this country, in Mexico, and abroad, and the guild of Latin American historians more generally, have lost one of their very best and most recognized practitioners.

In 1973, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship,[5] continuing his work on Mexican liberalism.

[7] One scholar noted Hale was one of the few historians in the late twentieth century who focused on the history of ideas in Latin America.

[8] Hale's last monograph, published just before his death, was Emilio Rabasa and the Survival of Porfirian Liberalism,[9] a political biography and intellectual history.