James McPherson to speak at Alexander Street's ALA breakfast

Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson will be the guest speaker at this summer's Alexander Street ALA breakfast on Sunday, June 24. Dr. McPherson served as an editorial adviser to Harper’s Weekly: 1857-1912, and is widely acknowledged as one of the world's foremost experts on the American Civil War.

McPherson's works include The Struggle for Equality, awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award. In 1989, he published his Pulitzer-winning book, Battle Cry of Freedom. And in  1998 another book, For Cause and Comrades, received the Lincoln Prize. In 2002 he published both a scholarly book, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam 1862, and a history of the Civil War for children, Fields of Fury.