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I don't. However you might try asking one of these 14 Dems, since they were all in the US Senate at the time and must have approved the choice as well...

Uh-huh. Yeah. Must have been one of them. Not somebody like Teddy Kennedy, Bob Kerrey, or Paul Sarbanes.

I'm not sure if you're intentionally miising the point I was making but, let me clarify.

At the time of Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson's appointment in 1991, the US Senate was in Democrat control and the old confederate states were represented there by 14 Democrats.

Heflin, Shelby -AL, Bumpers, Pryor -AR, Graham -FL, Nunn -GA, Johnston, Breaux -LA, Ford -KY, Sasser, Mathews -TN Hollings -SC, Robb -VA, Byrd -WV

Does it seem unreasonable that one or more of these southern Democrats would have been able to block (within their own caucus) the appointment of a "marxist historian" to the Civil War Sites Advisory Comission?