McPherson is professor emeritus of history at Princeton University and the author of a number of books on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom. The World Socialist ...

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Contributing significantly to Oxford's new academic series Pivotal Moments in American History and to the literature on the Civil War, McPherson convincingly establishes the Battle of Antietam as the ...

James M. McPherson is the most important historian of the most important event to occur in these United States since the Revolution and the framing of the Constitution -- the Civil War. Any new book ...

This war is a crusade -- We were in earnest -- Anxious for the fray -- If I flinched I was ruined -- Religion is what makes brave soldiers -- Band of brothers -- On the altar of my country -- The ...

Why the Civil War Still Matters -- Mexico, California, and the Coming of the Civil War -- A Just War? -- Death and Destruction in the Civil War -- American Navies and British Neutrality During the ...

CHICAGO, July 16 -- Civil War historian James M. McPherson is the recipient of the first Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing, the library announced ...

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Given the importance of Lincoln's role as commander-in-chief to the nation's very survival, says McPherson, this role has been underexamined. McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom), the doyen of Civil War ...