William L. Katz
William Loren Katz is the author of forty American history books and has been affiliated with New York University for thirty years. He is the editor of the 146-volume reprint series, The American Negro: History and Literature and the 69-volume reprint series: The Anti-Slavery Crusade in America.
Mr. Katz, who taught U.S. history in New York secondary schools and several colleges, has also served as a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Senate, a committee of the British House of Commons, and to various school systems from Seattle, Washington to Dade County, Florida. He lives in New York and lectures around the world.
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Oliver Law (1900-1937)
Oliver Law was the first African American in history to lead an integrated American military army. Born in west Texas...
Black Indians: A Personal and Historic Journey
William Loren Katz has devoted his life to researching and writing African American history. In the following account written to...
Battle of Lake Okeechobee (1837)
On Christmas Day, 1837, during the Second Seminole War, the Africans and Native Americans comprising Florida’s Seminole Nation defeated a...
African America’s First Protest Meeting: Black Philadelphians Reject the American Colonization Society Plans for Their Resettlem
In the following account historian William L. Katz revisits an essay he first wrote in 1968 as the introduction to...
January 1, 1863: When New Year’s Day Meant Freedom
When the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect January 1, 1863 African American soldiers in the Union Army had been fighting...
