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.
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