Philip Dray

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

Dray's work At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (by Random House Publishing Group^[1]) won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.^[2] He was a finalist in 2003 for a Pulitzer Prize in history.^[3]

• A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. ISBN 978-0-374-19441-3
• There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America. Doubleday, 2010. ISBN 978-0-385-52629-6
• Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen. Mariner Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-547-24797-7
• Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America. Random House, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8129-6810-1
• At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America. Modern Library, 2003. ISBN 978-0-375-75445-6
• We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi. Macmillan, 1989. ISBN 978-0-02-520260-3

• Philip Dray. Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist. Illustrated by Stephen Alcorn. Peachtree, 2008. ISBN 978-1-56145-417-4

• Philip Dray speaker on PBS & NPR Forum Network
• Appearances on C-SPAN

At the Hands of Persons Unknown

• 'At the Hands of Persons Unknown' review at History Connected

Power in a Union

• 'Power in a Union' review at Cleveland.com
• 'Power in a Union' review at Washington Post

Stealing God's Thunder

• 'Stealing God's Thunder' review at History Cooperative
• 'Stealing God's Thunder' review at eNotes.com

Capitol men

• 'Capitol Men' review in New York Times

• 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