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Article: `Historical deja vu' drives award winner's work.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- April 25, 1998
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Renowned Civil War scholar James McPherson had little interest in the subject until he arrived in Baltimore as a young graduate student and saw the present collide with the past.
During a speech at the Union League in New York City last week in which he accepted the Lincoln Prize for his book, "For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War," Mr. McPherson explained how modern-day events shaped his interests as a historian.
The Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College is awarded for the best Civil War work in the previous year. Mr. McPherson received $30,000 and a bronze bust based on the life-size sculpture "Lincoln the Man" by Augustus St. ...