Editing Geoffrey C. Ward (section)

====Later career====
Ward has been a long-time collaborator of American documentary filmmaker [[Ken Burns]]. Ward describes being asked to write the script for ''[[Huey Long (film)|Huey Long]]'' after meeting Burns at his house in Walpole, New Hampshire.<ref name=":0" />  The principal writer of the television mini-series ''[[The Civil War (documentary)|The Civil War]]'' (1990), Ward has collaborated with its co-producer [[Ken Burns]] on most of the documentaries he has made since, including ''[[Jazz (documentary)|Jazz]]'', ''[[Baseball (documentary)|Baseball]]'', ''[[The War (documentary)|The War]]'', and ''[[The Vietnam War (TV series)|The Vietnam War]]''. The films with Burns have garnered him five [[Emmy Award]]s. He has won an additional two Emmys for ''The Kennedys'' (1992), and  ''TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt'' (1996).<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/about/award/broadcast |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304210802/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/about/award/broadcast |archive-date=2016-03-04 | title=AMERICAN EXPERIENCE has been honored with over 265 awards including the following|website=[[PBS]] }}</ref>
His script for the documentary ''[[Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson]]'', won the [[Writers Guild of America]] Award in 2005,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id%3D1493 |title=Tv and radio nominees |access-date=2013-10-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012215422/http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1493 |archive-date=2013-10-12 }}</ref> and the accompanying book won the 2006 [[William Hill Sports Book of the Year]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxing/6189040.stm |title=Johnson biog named book of year  |work=[[BBC News]] |author=Staff writer |author-link=Staff writer |date=27 November 2006 |access-date=November 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/2351279/Johnsons-tale-floors-five-rivals.html |title=Johnson's tale floors five rivals |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |author=Andrew Baker |date=28 November 2006 |access-date=November 26, 2012}}</ref> and the [[Anisfield-Wolf Award]] for best biography.<ref>[http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/Anisfeld-Wolf Book Awards]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 2006, the [[Organization of American Historians]] gave Ward their [[Friend of History Award]] for his outstanding contributions to American history: {{blockquote|Over the last twenty years Geoffrey Ward's writings on American History have had a greater influence and reached a wider audience than those of any other American writer and historian. [His] work is always his own, but he has also helped free ideas that otherwise might have been imprisoned in the academy and helped them find a wider world. He has helped academic historians understand the possibilities, limits, and demands of what has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history."<ref>Organization of American Historians Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address Booklet 2006, page 4.  [http://www.www.oah.org/ Organization of American Historians] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706162428/http://www.www.oah.org/ |date=2012-07-06 }}</ref>}}

The 2011 Burns/Ward collaboration, ''[[Prohibition (miniseries)|Prohibition]]'', brought Ward his seventh Emmy for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.emmys.tv/awards/64th-primetime-emmy-awards| title=64th Primetime Emmy® Awards| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116065840/http://www.emmys.tv:80/awards/64th-primetime-emmy-awards| archive-date=2012-01-16}}</ref>  Since that project, he worked with Ken Burns on ''[[The Roosevelts (miniseries)|The Roosevelts: An Intimate History]]'', a seven-part documentary miniseries depicting the lives of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], and [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], (broadcast on PBS in September 2014), and a multi-part TV series "[[The Vietnam War (film)|The Vietnam War]]", with [[Lynn Novick]] and Ken Burns (broadcast on PBS in September 2017).

In 2012, Ward published a biography of his great-grandfather [[Ferdinand Ward]] (1851–1925), known as the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age. ''A Disposition to be Rich'' was written with the assistance of private family materials.