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Lake Forest Ill. - Noted American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson will deliver a presentation titled “Lincoln and The West,” organized in conjunction with the year-long national commemoration of the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln. The presentation is sponsored by the Oppenheimer Family Foundation and Lake Forest College and will be held on Thursday, October 8 at 8 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest. Tickets are required but there is no admission charge. Tickets can be now obtained by calling 847-735-5085. Alumni, students, parents, and faculty/staff, from the College can visit http://alumni.lakeforest.edu/mcpherson to reserve their tickets.

James McPherson has been called the preeminent living expert on the American Civil War. He is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton University as well as a past president of the American Historical Association and Protect Historic America. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, Crossroads of Freedom (which was a New York Times bestseller), Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution , and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War , which won the Lincoln Prize. Two years ago the Pritzker Military Library, based in Chicago, awarded him its very first award for lifetime achievement. Most recently Professor McPherson is the author of Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief (Oxford University Press, 2008).

The First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest is located at 700 North Sheridan Road at the intersection of Sheridan and Deerpath and is accessible via Metra.


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Irene Ratliff
847-735-6010