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James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War. He is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. McPherson was the president of the American ...
civilwar.vt.edu. William Charles " Jack " Davis (born 1946) is an American historian who was a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the former director of programs at that school's Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. Specializing in the American Civil War, Davis has written more than 40 books on that subject and other aspects of early ...
34912692. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War is a book by the Pulitzer Prize –winning author James M. McPherson. The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1997 and covers the lives and ideals of American Civil War soldiers from both sides of the war. Drawing from a compilation of over 25,000 letters and 250 ...
ISBN. 0-679-75833-X. Confederates in the Attic (1998) is a work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Tony Horwitz. Horwitz explores his deep interest in the American Civil War and investigates the ties in the United States among citizens to a war that ended more than 130 years previously. He reports on attitudes on the Civil War and ...
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy (or simply the Lost Cause) is an American pseudohistorical [1][2] and historical negationist myth [3][4][5] that claims the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery. [6][7] First enunciated in 1866, it has continued to influence racism, gender ...
The bibliography of the American Civil War comprises books that deal in large part with the American Civil War. There are over 60,000 books on the war, with more appearing each month. [1] Authors James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier stated in 2012, "No event in American history has been so thoroughly studied, not merely by historians ...
A Confederate novel was a type of fiction specific to North America that was written by Southerners and that centered Confederate States of America nationalism and existed to rationalize and defend a slavery-based economy and create a self-perpetuating cultural ethos. [1] More broadly defined, Confederate literature included nationalistic ...
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. [1] Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War. [2]