Author

Books by James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton University. He has spent his career studying the Civil War era and is the author of more than a dozen books on the period, including Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief and Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. Battle Cry of Freedom, published in 1988, won the Pulitzer Prize for History and remains the definitive single-volume account of the Civil War. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.