William S. McFeely | |
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Born | William Shield McFeely September 25, 1930 New York City, U.S. |
Died | December 11, 2019 Sleepy Hollow, New York, U.S. | (aged 89)
Alma mater | Amherst College Yale University |
Occupation | Historian |
William Shield McFeely (September 25, 1930 – December 11, 2019)[1] was an American historian known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1981 biography of Ulysses S. Grant, as well as his contributions to a reevaluation of the Reconstruction era, and for advancing the field of African-American history.[2] He retired as the Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities emeritus at the University of Georgia in 1997, and was affiliated with Harvard University since 2006.
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