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Philip Dray

Philip Dray
Philip Dray is the author of Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen and At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Dray lives in Brooklyn, New York.


How Ida B. Wells Campaigned to Expose the Lies Behind the Lynchings

Philip Dray on the Murder of Robert Lewis and Wells's Anti-Lynching Exposés
June 2, 2022  By Philip Dray
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The Wrong Kind of Redemption: A Civil War That Never Ended

Philip Dray on Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s New Book and the “Glorious Failure” of Reconstruction
April 8, 2019  By Philip Dray
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In Terms of Animal Welfare, Hunting is More Humane Than Farming

On the "Fair Chase" vs. the Factory Farm
May 4, 2018  By Philip Dray
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