Alexander Street Press News and Updates

James McPherson's presentation available online

More than four-hundred people woke up bright and early last Sunday to  hear Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian James McPherson speak at the Alexander Street Press customer appreciation breakfast during the American Library Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.  If you missed the presentation, or would like to see it again, you can view it here. 

Here are some pics from the event.  I'll be posting Stephen Rhind-Tutt's presentation on new developments at Alexander Street Press shortly.

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.