Historian speaking at Fargo Theatre

Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War historian and North Dakota native Dr. James McPherson will present a free public keynote address at the historic Fargo Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 16. An Evening with James McPherson, which begins at 7 p.m., is sponsored by Read North Dakota as part of the consortium’s focus on nonfiction books in 2008. McPherson won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his epic work, “Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era”, which is widely regarded as the best one-volume history of the Civil War.