Battle Cry of Freedom; The Civil War Era
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Book of the Month Club Edition. Trade paperback. xix, [1], 904,[4] pages. Wraps. Musical score. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Bibliographical Note. Index. Minor edge moisture stains. Minor page creasing. This book is Volume VI of The Oxford History of the United States; general editor of the series is C. Vann Woodward. Comprehensive one-volume history of the Civil War era, covering military, political, and economic topics. James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. McPherson was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003. McPherson joined the faculty of Princeton in 1962. His works include The Struggle for Equality, awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1965. In 1988, he published his Pulitzer-winning book, Battle Cry of Freedom. His 1990 book, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution argues that the emancipation of slaves amounts to a second American Revolution. McPherson's 1998 book, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, received the Lincoln Prize. In 2007, he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement in military history given by the Society for Military History. More