Drawn with the Sword by James M. McPherson

McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964.James M. The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Negro’s Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted during the War for the Union. Marching toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War, 1861–1865. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975.īlacks in America: Bibliographical Essays.

The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP. Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C. Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. Gettysburg, PA: Gettysburg College, 1984. Lincoln and the Strategy of Unconditional Surrender. New York: Macmillan, 1989.īattle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.īattle Chronicles of the Civil War. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1991.Ībraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.Īmerican Political Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present. “American Victory, American Defeat.” In Why the Confederacy Lost, edited by Gabor S. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. “We Cannot Escape History”: Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth. The American Heritage New History of the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.ĭrawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1998.įor Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. Is Blood Thicker than Water? Crises of Nationalism in the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.Įncyclopedia of Civil War Biographies. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002.Ĭrossroads of Freedom: Antietam. The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.Ībraham Lincoln. War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861–1865. The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters. In addition to serving as president of the American Historical Association, he has been president of Protect Historic America and the Society of American Historians. McPherson's works mostly focus on the American Civil War and Reconstruction, including Battle Cry of Freedom, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989, and For Cause and Comrades, which won the Lincoln Prize in 1998. He received his PhD in 1963 from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with C.

McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History emeritus at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1962.

Drawn with the Sword by James M. McPherson