
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.

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1994

An Intimate History
2014

2001

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

The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
1999

An Intimate History
2025

An Intimate History, 1941-1945
2007

Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
2000

The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
1989

A History of America's Music
2000

The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley
1995

An Illustrated History
1996

Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905
1985

The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004

The History of the Negro Leagues
1994

An Intimate History
2017