McFeely, William S

LC control no.	n 80139362
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	McFeely, William S. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1930-09-2 5
Death date	2019-12-11
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Sleepy Hollow (N.Y.)
Field of activity	History Biography
Affiliation	Yale University Mount Holyoke College University of Georgia
Profession or occupation	Historians Biographers
Found in	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)
Associated language	eng