Geoffrey Champion Ward is an author and screenwriter of various documentary presentations of American history. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1962. He was an editor of American Heritage magazine early in his career. He wrote the television mini-series The Civil War with its director Ken Burns and has collaborated with Burns on every documentary he has made since, including Jazz and Baseball. This work won him five Emmy Awards. The most recent Burns/Ward collaboration, The War, premiered on PBS in September 2007. In addition he co-wrote The West, of which Ken Burns was an executive producer, with fellow historian Dayton Duncan.
Series
Books
The Civil War
1990
Baseball
1994
The Roosevelts
An Intimate History
2014
Mark Twain
2001
A Disposition to Be Rich
How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States
2012
Not for Ourselves Alone
The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
1999
The War
An Intimate History, 1941-1945
2007
What If? 2
Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
2000
A First-Class Temperament
The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
1989
Jazz
A History of America's Music
2000
Closest Companion
The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley
1995
The West
An Illustrated History
1996
Before the Trumpet
Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905
1985
Unforgivable Blackness
The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Shadow Ball
The History of the Negro Leagues
1994
The Vietnam War
An Intimate History
2017
