#  Mass Historical Society: "A Civil Conversation" | James McPherson & Louis Masur 

 



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 **March 26, 2015** 

 05:30PM - 05:30PM EDT 

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 **Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS), 1154 Boylston Street, Boston MA**  



 

 



 

Details on the [Massachusetts Historical Society webpage](http://www.masshist.org/calendar).

Pulitzer Prize winning author **James McPherson** (Princeton University) and **Louis Masur** (Rutgers University), facilitated by **Carol Bundy**

$20 fee (no charge for MHS Fellows and Members)

Two eminent Civil War historians will discuss the cause of the war, the abolition of slavery, how the aftermath of the war weighed on Lincoln, and what the Civil War means to America today. Their conversation will spring, in part, from their new books, McPherson’s *The Long Shadow of War* and Masur’s *Lincoln’s Last Speech.*



 

 



 

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