Charles Adams Hale, age 78, Professor Emeritus of Latin American history at the University of Iowa, died on September 29 in Seattle, WA., surrounded by devoted family and friends. The cause of death was congestive heart failure. A thorough and distinguished scholar, he concentrated on the intellectual history of Mexican liberalism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the author of Mexican Liberalism in the Age of Mora, 1821-1853 (Yale University Press, 1968), which won Mexico's Fray Bernardino de Sahagn Prize; and The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico (Princeton University Press, 1989), which won the Bolton Prize. These works, also published in Spanish, earned him wide readership and recognition in Mexico, culminating with the Order of the Águila Azteca in 1993, the highest honor that the Mexican government bestows on foreigners for their contribution to Mexican society. Hale retired from the University of Iowa in 1997. In 2004, Charles and Lennie, his wife of 56 years, moved to Seattle where he continued research and writing on his last book, Emilio Rabasa and the Survival of Porfirian Liberalism. The ten year project was finished in the spring of 2008, and has been published by Stanford University Press. It will soon be published in translation in Mexico as well. In his final days, Charles often said how happy he was to have completed this work before his health deteriorated.