Charles Wesley Akers (April 2, 1920 – February 1, 2009) was an American historian, author, and educator.
Charles was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Ira and Mary Bird Akers.
[1] He began his career in education by teaching in the history department at his alma mater, the Eastern Nazarene College starting in 1948, took a leave of absence in 1957 to become the Director of Quincy Junior College, and left ENC in 1959.
[1] Akers' best known published work is Abigail Adams, an American Woman,[8] published by Little, Brown and Company (Boston) in 1980, republished by Addison Wesley Longman (New York) in 2000,[9] and called one of the three best books about Abigail Adams.
[10] He is also known for Called unto Liberty: A Life of Jonathan Mayhew, 1720-1766[11] and The Divine Politician, a biography of Samuel Cooper that won the American Revolution Roundtable Award.