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Charles Gibson (1920–1985) was a major American ethnohistorian who wrote foundational works on the Nahua peoples of colonial Mexico. He studied history at Yale University with George Kubler and he taught for a number of years at University of Iowa before moving to University of Michigan. His dissertation on the Nahua polity of Tlaxcala which was a key ally of the Spaniards in the conquest of Mexico published in 1952 as Tlaxcala in the Sixteenth Century.