Philip Dray is an American writer and historian, known for his comprehensive analyses of American scientific, racial, and labor history.

Awards

Dray's work ''At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America'' (by Random House Publishing Group) won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was a finalist in 2003 for a

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

in history.

Books

* ''A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age.'' Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. * ''There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America''. Doubleday, 2010. * ''Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen''. Mariner Books, 2010. * ''Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America''. Random House, 2005. * ''At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America''. Modern Library, 2003. * '' We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi.'' Macmillan, 1989.

Children's books

* Philip Dray. ''Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist''. Illustrated by Stephen Alcorn. Peachtree, 2008.

References

External links

Philip Dray speaker on PBS & NPR Forum Network
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Independent reviews

At the Hands of Persons Unknown
'At the Hands of Persons Unknown' review at History Connected
Power in a Union

Stealing God's Thunder

'Stealing God's Thunder' review at eNotes.com
Capitol men

Interviews

Video of Philip Dray on "The Daily Show", Comedy Central, aired on October 6, 2010

''Fresh Air'', "Interview with Terry Gross", WHYY, aired on 2002-01-21
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