WE LOVE TO talk about the advantages of being near a city like Washington,DC: culture, concerts, food, entertainment, theater, art, history, and the list goes on and on. Tonight a group of students in an honors Civil War course will spend the evening with Dr. James McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian. That reminds us of another advantage: all the biggest and best authors swing through DC on their book tours.

McPherson, a professor at Princeton University, is making an appearance at Politics & Prose, one of DC's great bookstores. He will be discussing he newest book, The Mighty Scourge, which is a collection of essays on the Civil War, including essays on General Robert E. Lee’s goals in the Gettysburg campaign, Lincoln and Grant in the Vicksburg campaign, and Lincoln as commander in chief.


If you are in the area and would like to join the class, contact professor Bradford Haas at bhass@cuc.edu. Vehicles will leave the CUC parking lot at 6:00pm.

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