Institution, he has spoken here on a number of occasions. Most of you know dr. James mcpherson is the henry davis 86 professor at Princeton University where he has taught history for more than four decades. Here earned his phd at Johns Hopkins university where he studied under the great woodward. Mcpherson is a twotime winner of the which he earned in 1997. And for his 2008 effort, Abraham Lincoln as commanderinchief. His most recent books which we have in the back is the war that forged a nation. Why the civil war still matters. Today, this evening, will be focusing on battle cry of freedom. It was published in 1988. 900 pages long, complete with 1500 footnotes. But that did not scare away popular audiences at all. It sold more than 600,000 copies. Are we close to 700,000 now . About. Must have a ton of twitter followers. [laughter] if i do i am not aware of it. [laughter] how about facebook . No. Im not aware of that either. We can set you up after this. [laughter] battle cry of free
Pulitzer prize for battle cry of freedom the civil war era. I would like to welcome doctor james mcpherson. He is a longtime friend of the institution, he has spoken here on a number of occasions. Most of you know dr. James mcpherson is the henry davis 86 professor at Princeton University where he has taught history for more than four decades. Here earned his phd at Johns Hopkins university where he studied under the great woodward. Mcpherson is a twotime winner of the which he earned in 1997. And for his 2008 effort, Abraham Lincoln as commanderinchief. His most recent books which we have in the back is the war that forged a nation. Why the civil war still matters. Today, this evening, will be focusing on battle cry of freedom. It was published in 1988. 900 pages long, complete with 1500 footnotes. But that did not scare away popular audiences at all. It sold more than 600,000 copies. Are we close to 700,000 now . About. Must have a ton of twitter followers. [laughter] if i do i am no
[applause] tim i am neither a historian or an author. I just draw silly pictures. Im happy to be here today to discuss, discovering gettysburg. Im just going to throw your name, and give me a brief introduction of who you are, so the folks out here can know what you are up to, and maybe tell us about the book you just published. Let me introduce first, my partner in crime, dr. Stephen coleman. Hello. Yes, we have been very pleased that the book was published by savis beatty. It is called discovering gettysburg an unconventional introduction to the town, and the battle that made it famous. I was in theater for 50 years, and as my career in theater waned, i found my interest in theater waning with it. I needed a new interest. I said, lets go see the beautiful foliage in pennsylvania. And that little altercation in gettysburg, maybe we can find out a little bit more about that. I found a hotel and discovered the battlefield guides. So, what we have done is try to come at this whole questi
Fun to accuse his opponent of bestiality because whether or not it was true, he had to defend himself. Right. And so i think theres been a lot, you know theres always been this sort of lets put this out there and see what, you know what dance they have to do to make this, to get out of this. So yeah. And that was probably said, obviously with him in the preinternet age. [laughter] where you can put anything out now about anybody. Bun of the nice things and hopefully our book is part of this is there is a way of trying to hold politicians accountable and things like fact check and the Tampa Bay Times political practice you can change the accuracy of the statement and i would love to see personally more of those type of things and how politics come and again we hope that our book, by eluding people to the fact they fall back on these wellworn expressions can contribute to that understanding. I understand how these spread so quickly with the internet but who comes up with them in the firs
No matter where you come from, if you are blessed enough and fortunate enough to rise to a level that she dont forget there are other people that are facing many obstacles, too and its incumbent upon you to take them out of it them as well. I think its just a great read. It is a human american story that i think in our time we could all benefit, just to be reminded that we are all in this together. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Welcome to National Press club. The washington correspondent in the 109th president of National Press club. And the author of an imperfect union in the aftermath welcome to our Live Audience today as well as hes been the tv. In his new book, check exports of the gettysburgs most stories searching for his soldier son in the haze of the battle while also touching on the journals of practice. In the full measure of devotion. Jim baron said of the imperfect union, hes perfect though, one that contains an aerial intimate view of the cost of the gr