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"For A Vast Future Also": Lincoln and the Millennium
BY JAMES M. MCPHERSON
Jefferson Lecture
March 27, 2000
When Abraham Lincoln breathed his last at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton intoned: "Now he belongs to the ages."
Stanton's remark was more prescient than he knew, for Lincoln's image and his legacy became the possession not only of future ages of Americans but also of people of other nations. On the centenary of Lincoln's birth in 1909, Leo Tolstoy described him as "a Christ in miniature, a saint of humanity." An Islamic leader projected a more militant image of Lincoln, declaring that America's sixteenth president "spoke with a voice of thunder. . .and his deeds were as strong as the rock." When Jacqueline Kennedy lived in the White House, she sought comfort in the Lincoln Room in times of trouble. "The kind of peace I felt in that room," she recalled, "was what you feel when going into a church. I used to feel his strength, I'd sort of be talking to him."
Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to persuade Jacqueline Kennedy's husband to iss
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James M. McPherson
James McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His books include Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, and, most recently, The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters. (October 2016)
Our Monstrous War
Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
by Michael C.C. Adams
July 10, 2014 issue
What Drove the Terrible War?
Five new books about the Civil War
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
by Amanda Foreman
The Union War
by Gary W. Gallagher
1861: The Civil War Awakening
by Adam Goodheart
America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
by David Goldfield
God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War
by George C. Rable
July 14, 2011 issue
Lincoln Off His Pedestal
A. Lincoln: A Biography
by Ronald C. White Jr.
Abraham Lincoln: A Life
by Michael Burlingame
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
by Fred Kaplan
Mrs. Lincoln:
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James M. McPherson
American historian (born 1936)
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 Historical Association in 2003.
Early life and education
Born in Valley City, North Dakota, McPherson graduated from St. Peter High School in St. Peter, Minnesota, and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1958 from Gustavus Adolphus College, also in St. Peter, from which he graduated magna cum laude. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1963, where he studied under C. Vann Woodward.[1]
Career
McPherson joined the faculty of Princeton in 1962.[1] His works include The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction, awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award in 1965. In 1988, he published his Pulitzer-wi
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