ALSO BY JAMES M. MCPHERSON

The Struggle for Equality:
Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction

The Negro’s Civil War: How American Negroes
Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

Marching Toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War

The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP

Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution

What They Fought For, 1861–1865

Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War

Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters
of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy

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PIVOTAL MOMENTS
IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Series Editors

David Hackett Fischer
James M. McPherson

James T. Patterson
Brown v. Board of Education:
A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

Maury Klein
Rainbow’s End:
The Crash of 1929