![]() ![]() "Drawn With the Sword" (1996) is a collection of essays, with one entitled "The War that Never Goes Away," that is introduced by a passage from Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address on Mafrom which its title came: "Fondly do we hope - and fervently do we pray - that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. "Battle Cry of Freedom" won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1989. His earliest work, "The Struggle for Equality," studied the activities of the Abolitionist movement following the Emancipation Proclamation. He began teaching at Princeton University in the mid 1960's and is the author of several articles, reviews and essays on the Civil War, specifically focusing on the role of slaves in their own liberation and the activities of the abolitionists. McPherson, McPherson was born in 1936 and received a Ph.D. His newest book, entitled Abraham Lincoln, celebrates the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth with a short, but detailed look at this president's life. ![]() He is the George Henry Davis Professor of American History at Princeton University in New Jersey, where he also lives. McPherson is the author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, which won a Pulitzer Prize in history, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, a Lincoln Prize winner. ![]()
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