James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published many volumes on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Battle Cry of Freedom, Crossroads of Freedom (which was a New York Times bestseller), Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, which won the Lincoln Prize.