William S. McFeely

William S. McFeely is Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia. Prior to the University of Georgia, he taught 16 years at Mount Holyoke College. He has had a long career investigating many disparate elements of American history. His work has been primarily in the field of African American history, but he has ranged far afield. His most recent project was a study of Thomas Eakins, the great nineteenth-century painter. He is the author of Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen; Grant: A Biography, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Parkman Prize; Frederick Douglass, which received the Lincoln Prize; Sapelo’s People: A Long Walk into Freedom; and Proximity to Death.