Books written by William S. McFeely
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
Recounts the life of Frederick Douglass as he recorded it and includes several criticisms of the text.
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Proximity to Death
An unflinching look at capital punishment in the United States today and at the courts, laws, lawyers and convicts that form the battleground of the death penalty debate focuses on the struggles of a group of Atlanta lawyers.
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Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen
George Francis Dawson's Life and Services of Gen. John A. Logan ( Chicago , 1887 ) was helpful on the general with whom Howard did not get along . Virginia W. Johnson , The Unregimented General : A Biography of Nelson A. Miles ( Boston ...
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Frederick Douglass
18, 1846, Letters of Garrison, 3:378–79. 151 “rapturously received”: Ibid., 379. 151 “more delighted”: William Lloyd Garrison to Helen Benson Garrison, Aug. 18, 1846, ibid., 377. 151 “smitten him”: William Lloyd Garrison to Edmund ...
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Proximity to Death
Another picture in the paper had shown Edward Stephens in full Klan regalia . Stephens , she discovered , lived in Jonesboro , just south of Atlanta . She had a phonebook address , and turning off the interstate she had no trouble ...
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Ulysses S. Grant: An Album
They had no corduroy roads to make , and I question if a corduroy road was made in the whole campaign . ” 7 Of all the courses that Grant took at West Point the one he liked best was his drawing class with Robert Weir ( page 78 ) ...
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Grant
12 In September a different practical solution to the problems of some of the refugees had suggested itself to General James M. Tuttle, Grant's successor in command at Cairo, Illinois. He told Stanton that Grant was sending "large lots ...
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Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins
A critical study of the life and work of American painter Thomas Eakins examines his deeply perceptive paintings, including his extraordinary portraits, in light of the artist's own battle with...
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Sapelo's People: A Long Walk Into Freedom
Those following Howard's column reached the sea at Confederate Fort McAllister , where the Ogeechee River meets the tidal waters leading out to Osabaw Island , two islands north of Sapelo . When that fort , the last major defense of ...
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Presents a discussion of the development of the Southern social movement called "Jim Crowism" and segregation in post-Reconstruction United States.
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Frederick Douglass
Probes beneath the public image of this important national leader to reveal a complex portrait of the man who exposed the brutal injustice of slavery and spoke loudly and clearly for the cause of freedom
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Frederick Douglass
great “ l ” when in 1844 he began to write a story of his life that would make the world pay him true attention . ... such as William L. Andrews , who see them as two in the series of I narratives of that most remarkable of all decades ...