About a zillion years ago, I was an editorial assistant at Oxford University Press, apprenticed to Sheldon Meyer, one of the great editors of American history. Sheldon had exquisite taste and the ...

Most of his contemporaries didn't like Jefferson Davis. "Few men," observed one, "could be more chillingly, freezingly cold." "The most difficult man to get along with . . . ever" claimed a second. A ...

McPherson is professor emeritus of history at Princeton University and the author of a number of books on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom. The World Socialist ...

James McPherson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, will speak at a Brigham Young University forum assembly Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center. James M. McPherson graduated magna ...

A recent conversation with historian James McPherson of Princeton University was prompted by two events: the appearance of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, which purports to deal with an episode ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian McPherson (Battle Cry of Freedom) contributes to the slew of Lincoln biennial books with this succinct biography, weighing in at a lean 70 pages (plus notes), that ...

Perhaps more than any other contemporary historian, James M. McPherson has a talent for posing provocative questions, then answering them with impeccable logic. In “This Mighty Scourge,” a collection ...

There's been lots of talk about "American exceptionalism" lately. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani recently charged that President Obama doesn't believe in it. This wasn't the first time that ...

James M. McPherson, a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author of many books on the Civil War, most recently The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford). A POX ON BOTH YOUR ...