Battle Cry of Freedom (book)
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a Pulitzer Prize
-winning history of the American Civil War
and its causes published in 1988 by James M. McPherson
. Writing for The New York Times
, historian Hugh Brogan
described it as "...the best one-volume treatment of its subject I have ever come across. It may actually be the best ever published." Battle Cry of Freedom is volume six in the Oxford History of the United States
.
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
-winning history of the American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
and its causes published in 1988 by James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and 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, his most famous book...
. Writing for The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, historian Hugh Brogan
Hugh Brogan
Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan , known as Hugh Brogan, is a British historian and biographer.-Early life:The son of Sir Denis Brogan, he was educated at St Faith's School, Cambridge, Repton School, and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1959 and MA in 1964...
described it as "...the best one-volume treatment of its subject I have ever come across. It may actually be the best ever published." Battle Cry of Freedom is volume six in the Oxford History of the United States
Oxford History of the United States
The Oxford History of the United States is an ongoing multi-volume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press.-Woodward editorship:The series originated with a plan laid out by historians C...
.