James M. McPherson

Battle Cry of Freedom vividly traces how a new nation was forged when a war both sides were sure would amount to little dragged for four years and cost more American lives than all other wars combined....

History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Many Americans of his own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, not to mention a traitor. Not so, argues James M. McPherson....

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War....

In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history....

As we approach the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in 2009, this work provides agenuinely novel, even timely, view of the most written about figure in our history....

Compared to the Normandy invasion in World War II, Antietam produced four times as many casualties....

Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War historian James McPherson provides a historic tour through Gettysburg...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War remains so deeply embedded in our national psyche and identity....

The events that occurred at Gettysburg are etched into our collective memory...

In this compelling biography, McPherson follows Abraham Lincoln from his early frontier days to his turbulent years in the White House....

In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas....

James McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war....