Massachusetts Amherst from 1977 to 1980, and a guest lecturer at universities in the United States and England. Additionally he presented at professional gatherings and did seminars for other professionals. He did work on various documentary films such as History of the American Negro and Five. Works Autobiographical Starting from Home: A Writer's Beginnings (Viking Kestrel, 1988) Milton Meltzer: Writing Matters (Franklin Watts, 2004) Non-fiction In the Days of the Pharaohs: A Look at Ancient Egypt (1956) A Pictorial History of the Negro in America, Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer (1956) 3rd ed. revised by C. Eric Lincoln and Milton Meltzer (1968) 4th revised ed., A Pictorial History of Black Americans, by Langston Hughes, Milton Meltzer, and Abraham Lincoln (Crown, 1973) Tongue of Flame: The Life of Lydia Maria Child (1958) Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography (1960) Milestones to American Liberty (1961) A Thoreau Profile, by Henry David Thoreau, Milton Meltzer, Roy Harding (1962) Thoreau: People, Principles and Politics (1963) In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro, editor (Crowell, 1964–1967), 3 vols. A Light in the Dark: the Life of Samuel Gridley Howe. (1964) Milestonese to American Liberty: Foundations of the Republic (1966) Time of Trial, Time of Hope: The Negro in America 1919-1941 (1966) Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment, Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer (1967); later title, Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the African-American in the Performing Arts Bread and Roses: The Struggle of American Labor, 1865–1915 (1967) Thaddeus Stevens and the Fight for Negro Rights (1967) Langston Hughes: A Biography (1968) — NBA finalist Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?: The Great Depression, 1929–1933 (1969) Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of Birth Control (1969) (co-author) Freedom Comes to Mississippi: The Story of Reconstruction (1970) Slavery (1971) Milestone to American Liberty (1971) To Change the World: A Picture History of Reconstruction (1971) The Right to Remain Silent (1972) Reconstruction (1972) Hunted Like A Wolf: The Story of the Seminole War (1972) The Mexican-American War (1973) Bound for the Rio Grande: The Mexican Struggle 1845-1850 (1974) Eye of Conscience: Photographers and Social Change (1974) Remember the Days (1974) — NBA finalist World of Our Fathers (1974) — NBA finalist Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust (1976) Violins & Shovels: the WPA Arts Projects (1976) Taking Root: Jewish Immigrants in America (1976) Slavery from the Rise of Western Civilization to