Claude Halstead Van Tyne (October 16, 1869 – March 21, 1930) was an American historian.

He taught history at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1930 and wrote several books on the American Revolution.

He left his banking career, and went to the University of Michigan to pursue his higher studies.

[2] He died at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 21, 1930, after a long illness.

He also wrote Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington (coauthor: Waldo G. Leland; 1904), A History of the United States for Schools (co-author Andrew C. McLaughlin, 1911)[5] and India in Ferment (1923).