James McPherson
Selected Bibliography
The Negro’s Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the Union (1965)
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (1982)
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)
Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution (1990)
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997)
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (2002)
Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg (2003)
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (2008)
Abraham Lincoln (2009)
War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (2012)
The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters (2015)
James McPherson (October 11, 1936-) was born in Valley City, North Dakota, but he attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, where he earned his B.A. Later, he earned his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. McPherson is a historian who specializes in American History, especially Civil War history. He has taught American History at Princeton since 1962.
McPherson has written many books on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his book Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, which is considered a classic secondary source for those interested in learning more about the Civil War. McPherson’s writing has also won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Lincoln Prize. Some of his other works include For Cause and Comrade: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg, and Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief.