AHA Presidential Address Bibliography
James M. McPherson, 2003
The struggle for equality; abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and
Reconstruction, by James M. McPherson. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1964.
The Negro's Civil War; how American Negroes felt and acted during the war for
the Union, by James M. McPherson. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965.
Marching toward freedom; the Negro in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James M.
McPherson. New York: Knopf, 1968, c1967.
Blacks in America; bibliographical essays, by James M. McPherson and others.
1st ed. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971.
The abolitionist legacy: from Reconstruction to the NAACP, by James M.
McPherson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1975.
Region, race, and Reconstruction: essays in honor of C. Vann Woodward, edited
by J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Ordeal by fire: the Civil War and Reconstruction, by James M. McPherson.
1st ed. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, c1982.
Lincoln and the strategy of unconditional surrender, by James M. McPherson.
Gettysburg, Pa: Gettysburg College, 1984.
How Lincoln won the war with metaphors, by James M. McPherson. Fort Wayne,
Ind.: Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum, 1985.
Battle cry of freedom: the Civil War era, by James M. McPherson. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1988.
Battle chronicles of the Civil War, by James McPherson, editor; Richard Gottlieb,
managing editor. 6 vols. New York: Macmillan Pub. Co.; London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, c1989.
Abraham Lincoln and the second American Revolution, by James M. McPherson.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
American political leaders: from colonial times to the present, by Steven G.
O'Brien; editor, Paula McGuire; consulting editors, James M. McPherson, Gary Gerstle. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1991.
Why the Confederacy lost, edited by Gabor S. Boritt ; essays by James M.
McPherson ... [et al.]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
What they fought for, 1861-1865, by James M. McPherson. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, c1994.
The atlas of the Civil War, edited by James M. McPherson. New York:
Macmillan, c1994.
"We cannot escape history": Lincoln and the last best hope of Earth, edited by
James M. McPherson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
The abolitionist legacy: from Reconstruction to the NAACP, James M.
McPherson. 2nd ed. with a new preface by the author. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.
The American heritage new history of the Civil War, narrated by Bruce Catton;
edited and with a new introduction by James McPherson. New York: Viking, 1996.
Drawn with the sword: reflections on the American Civil War, by James M.
McPherson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
For cause and comrades: why men fought in the Civil War, by James M.
McPherson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Is blood thicker than water?: crises of nationalism in the modern world, by James
M. McPherson. Toronto: Vintage Canada, c1998.
Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant, by Ulysses S. Grant; with an introduction and
notes by James M. McPherson. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
Encyclopedia of Civil War biographies, edited by James M. McPherson.
3 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, c2000.
Crossroads of freedom: Antietam, by James M. McPherson. Oxford; New York:
Oxford University Press, 2002.
The boys in blue and gray, written by James M. McPherson. New York:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2002.
The illustrated Battle cry of freedom: the Civil War era, by James M. McPherson.
New York: Oxford University Press, c2003.
Hallowed ground: a walk at Gettysburg, by James M. McPherson. 1st ed.
New York: Crown Journeys, 2003.
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