McFeely, William S. (Personal Name)

His Yankee stepfather, 1968.

BL AL recd. 25 Oct. 1988 (William Shield McFeely, born 1930)

LC database, Dec. 20, 2019 (access point: McFeely, William S.; usage: William S. McFeely)

Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 20, 2019 (in obituary dated Dec. 19, 2019: William McFeely; William S. McFeely, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose biographies of Ulysses S. Grant and Frederick Douglass were praised as literary landmarks, died Dec. 11 in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. He was 89. Dr. McFeely worked in banking before turning to academia. He went on to help found one of the country's first African American studies programs, at Yale University, and was considered a leading authority on the Civil War and Reconstruction. William Shield McFeely was born Sept. 25, 1930, in New York City. He left banking after nine years to enter graduate school at Yale, where he received a master's degree in 1962 and doctorate in American studies in 1966. In 1970, Dr. McFeely moved from Yale to Mount Holyoke College, where he taught for 16 years. He was at the University of Georgia from 1986 until his retirement in 1997)