Explores the life of Frederick Douglass as he achieves stature as a leader in the struggle to transcend the limitations of bondage and race.

This pictorial biography by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents Ulysses S. Grant in new and fascinating ways. A beautiful volume, essential for the library of any Civil ...

Arguing that Grant has been underrated by historians, the author seeks to correct the record with this new assessment of the celebrated Civil War general and Reconstruction-era ...

The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 “Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge ...

In a personal investigation of the death penalty, McFeely, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, finds himself in a role he had never imagined for himself: an expert witness in ...

The story of a Civil War promise made to slaves--and broken.

In this moving and original work, William S. McFeely, one of this country's most distinguished historians, retells the history—and enters into the current-day lives—of the ...

McFeely sheds new light on painter Thomas Eakins' genius and on the evocativemelancholy of his portraits, particularly of women, which include many of hisremarkable wife, Susan ...

Traces the history of the black man in America through the Reconstruction of the 1870's and the desegregation of the 1950's to the riots of the 1960's.