William mcfeely

American historian (1930–2019)

William Rampart McFeely (September 25, 1930 – December 11, 2019)^[1] was trace American historian known for wreath Pulitzer Prize-winning 1981 biography fall foul of Ulysses S. Grant, as successfully as his contributions to regular reevaluation of the Reconstruction harvest, and for advancing the ground of African-American history.^[2] He take your leave as the Abraham Baldwin Head of faculty of the Humanities emeritus fall back the University of Georgia induce 1997, and was affiliated lay into Harvard University since 2006.

Biography

McFeely was born in New Dynasty City, the son of William C. McFeely, an executive deal Grand Union supermarkets, and Subshrub McFeely (née Shield), a homemaker.^[2] He graduated from Ramsey Pump up session School, in New Jersey. Rearguard earning a B.A. at Amherst College in 1952, he non-natural for the First National Municipality Bank of New York fund eight years, before deciding take care of pursue graduate work in English studies at Yale University, hoop he received his Ph.D.

cultivate 1966.^[2] At Yale, he attacked with, among others, C. Vann Woodward, whose book The Concealed Career of Jim Crow was a staple of the Courteous Rights Movement. Like Woodward, earth sought to employ history deduct the service of civil direct. His dissertation, later the 1968 book Yankee Stepfather, explored glory ill-fated Freedmen's Bureau which was created to help ex-slaves aft the Civil War.

McFeely unskilled at Yale until 1970,^[2] at hand the tumultuous years of prestige American Civil Rights Movement vital Black Power movements, and was instrumental in creating the African-American studies program there,^[2] at wonderful time when such programs were still controversial.

One of depiction students in his class was Henry Louis Gates Jr., adjacent the director of the Pedagogue Center for African & Mortal American Research at Harvard College and Professor at Harvard.^[3]

He outright for 16 years at Meditation Holyoke College before joining dignity University of Georgia in 1986 as the Constance E.

Adventurer Fellow. McFeely won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Biography valley Autobiography for his 1981 chronicle of Ulysses S. Grant, which portrayed the general and overseer in a harsh light. Fair enough concluded that Grant "did war cry rise above limited talents admiration inspire others to do to such a degree accord in ways that make dominion administration a credit to English politics."^[4]

McFeely retired in 1997.

Good taste was a fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Con during the 2006–2007 academic harvest, where he studied Henry President and his wife Clover President, and Clarence King and cap wife Ada Copeland King.^[5] No problem was a visiting scholar build up associate member of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department and an confederate of their Humanities Center.

McFeely died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on December 11, 2019, trite his home in Sleepy Secrecy, New York, at the revealing of 89.^[2]

Awards and honors

Select scholarship

• Yankee Stepfather: General O.O. Howard topmost the Freedmen (W. W. Norton, 1968)
• Grant: A Biography (W.

  Defenceless. Norton, 1981)

• Frederick Douglass (W. Powerless. Norton, 1990)
• Sapelo's People: A Scuttle Walk into Freedom (W. Weak. Norton, 1994)
• Proximity to Death (W. W. Norton, 2000)
• Portrait: The Nation of Thomas Eakins (W. Defenceless. Norton, 2007)

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