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Initially moved to study the history of the South as a way of understanding the civil rights movement, James M. McPherson has become the preeminent expert on the Civil War and Reconstruction. His award-winning work provides detail, context and a modern perspective on one of America's most important historical periods.
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Fact File
| Name:
James M. McPherson
Current Home:
Princeton, New Jersey
Date of Birth:
October 11, 1936
Place of Birth:
Valley City, North Dakota
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B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN) 1958; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1963
Awards:
Anisfield-Wolf Award for The Struggle for Equality, 1965; Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, 1989; Lincoln Prize for Cause and Comrades, 1998
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| | Fields of Fury: The American Civil War
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James M. McPherson
McPherson brings the war to life for young readers in this slim overview. He breaks the war down to a series of two-page spreads broken down by topic, moving from the war's causes, through its battles to its conclusion. Throughout, maps, striking photographs, illustrations and sidebars enliven the text.
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| | This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
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James M. McPherson
In his latest, McPherson, a leading Civil War historian, compiles essays and book reviews, bringing a critical intelligence to central questions concerning the war. The topics that McPherson covers range from the conflict's roots in slavery to the postwar Southern campaign to control how history is represented in textbooks.
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| | Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
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C. Vann Woodward
Woodward's seminal book is what drew McPherson to the subject he himself has enlarged for so many readers. He explained, "It opened a whole new way of looking at the history of the South and of race relations during a crucial period of transformation from slavery to segregated freedom."
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