William Loren Katz in an undated photo. He wrote some 40 books about the integral roles that black people played in American history.

Historian and author William Loren Katz gave a talk at the CUNY Graduate Center on “The Black West.” The talk was filled with descriptions of people who, Mr. Katz said, made the West but seldom made ...

Black Indians: A Hidden HeritageMany know William Loren Katz through his forty books -- which include such award-winning titles as Black Indians, The Black West, and Black Women of the Old West ...

The indefatigable author of more than three-score books about American history, more than a dozen of which treat African American history, Katz sets the record straight in this revised and ...