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James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War. He is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.
One measure of the affection felt throughout the profession for historian James M. McPherson might be the number of students, colleagues, and fans who willingly showed up—many with coffee in hand and suitcases in tow—to celebrate his career at an 8:30 a.m. session on the final day of the AHA’s 126th annual meeting.
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Born October 11, 1936, in Valley City, ND; son of James Munro (a high school teacher and administrator) and Miriam (an elementary school teacher; maiden name, Osborn) McPherson; married Patricia A. Rasche (an editor), December 28, 1957; children: Joanna. Education: Gustavus Adolphus College, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1958; Johns Hopkins University, P...
Home— 15 Randall Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540-3609. Office— Department of History, Dickinson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, instructor, 1962-65, assistant professor, 1965-68, associate professor, 1968-72, professor of history, 1972-82, Edwards Professor of American History, 1982-91, George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History, 1991—. Commonwealth Fund Lecturer, University College, London, England, 1982. Fellow, Behavioral Sc...
Organization of American Historians, Protect Historic America (president, 1993-94), Society of American Historians (president, 2000-01) American Philosophical Society, American Historical Association (president, 2003-04), Southern Historical Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1958; Danforth fellow, 1958-62; Proctor & Gamble faculty fellowship;Anisfield Wolff Award in Race Relations, Cleveland Foundation, 1965, for The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction; Guggenheim fellow, 1967-58; Huntington fellowship, National Endowment for the Hum...
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction,Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1964, 2nd edition with new preface by the author, 1995. The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted in the War for the Union, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1965, published as The Negro's Civil War: How Ame...
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era was released on audio tape by Books on Tape, 1989; Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution was released on audio tape by Books on Tape, 1992; Crossroads of Freedom: Antietamwas released as an audio CD by Oxford University Press, 2002.
James M. McPherson has been called the preeminent living expert on the American Civil War. The war, which took place from 1861 to 1865, pitted the Union Army from the northern United States against the Confederate Army from the southern United States. More than six hundred thousand soldiers died in the Civil War—more than in any other war involving...
you might want to check out the following books: Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative(three volumes), 1974. Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution,1988. Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels,1974. In his interview with William R. Ferris of Humanities,McPherson suggested why he thinks that the Civil War has an enduring fascinati...
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America,September 16, 2002, Tom O'Brien, "A Qualified Victory," p. 23. Booklist, October 1, 1968, review of Marching toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War, 186l-1865, pp. 189-190; February 1, l997, Roland Green, review of For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, p. 924; November 15, 2002, Carolyn Phelan, review of Fields of Fury: The American Civil War,p. 586. Book World,May 5, 1968, Paul M. Angle, "The Battle against Prejudice," p. 30. Civil War History, September, 2003,...
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National Endowment for the Humanities,http://www.neh.fed.us/ (March 22, 2003), Amy Lifson, "Meet James McPherson." National Humanities Alliance (NEH) Testimony,http://www.nhalliance.org/(April 18, 1991), "James M. McPherson, 18 April 1991." Salon,http://www.salon.com/ (March 22, 2003), Katherine Whittamore, review of Drawn with the Sword. World Socialist Web Site,http://www.wsws.org/(May 19, l999), David Walsh, "Historian James M. McPherson and the Cause of Intellectual Integrity."*
New histories, biographies, miniseries, novels, and reenactments continue to capture the American imagination about the turbulent years between 1861 and 1865, partly because, as McPherson explains, the issues that caused the war are still with us.
Jan 30, 2006 · Cleveland’s public schools are rooted in the campaign to provide a tax-supported, compulsory system of education that began with Horace Mann in Massachusetts and Henry Barnard in Connecticut during the late 1820s.
Mar 6, 2015 · In antebellum America, McPherson writes, "two distinct socioeconomic and cultural systems competed for dominance": free-labor capitalism in the North and slave-based plantation agriculture in the...
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Oct 30, 2014 · Historian James M. McPherson considers Confederate President Jefferson Davis as a war leader in 'Embattled Rebel'. By James M. McPherson. Most of his contemporaries didn't like...
