James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He is the author of many works of history, including Battle Cry of Freedom, which won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize.
1. Why the Civil War Still Matters
2. Mexico, California, and the Coming of the Civil War
3. A Just War?
4. Death and Destruction in the Civil War
5. American Navies and British Neutrality During the Civil War
6. The Rewards of Risk-Taking: Two Civil War Admirals
7. How Did Freedom Come?
8. Lincoln, Slavery, and Freedom
9. A. Lincoln, Commander in Chief
10. The Commander Who Would Not Fight: McClellan and Lincoln
11. Lincoln's Legacy for Our Time
12. War and Peace in the Post-Civil War South
