This semester he is teaching his popular "The American Civil War and Reconstruction" course. In addition, McPherson recently was named the 2003 president of the American Historical Association. And he is putting the finishing touches on "Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg," a short book in a series about places that are meaningful to the author. In between appearances to promote the new book, McPherson is working on a new edition of "Battle Cry of Freedom" with 700 new illustrations, set to be published in December 2003.
McPherson, the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History, "does a superb job of re-creating a moment when the war, and all of American history that followed, might have gone altogether differently," said a review in USA Today.
When the Union emerged victorious, the course of the rest of the war was determined. The war was at a crossroads as the soldiers met in the fields between Antietam Creek and the Potomac River on Sept. "Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam" tells the story of the battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day of the Civil War, in which more than 6,000 soldiers were killed. Princeton NJ - His 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Battle Cry of Freedom," has become the classic text on the Civil War, and now James McPherson has a new book out that focuses on a single battle of that war. McPherson: civil War battle provides lessons for today
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