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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.
B.A. Gustavus Adolphus College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1958. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1963, Highest Distinction. Professor McPherson was born in 1936, at Valley City, North Dakota. He is married with one child.
James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, and arguably the finest Civil War historian in the world, walks us through the site of the bloodiest and perhaps most consequential battle ever fought by Americans: the Battle of Gettysburg.
Jan 1, 2004 · The most critical landmark along McPherson’s new road was the publication in 1988 of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press). Battle Cry is superior narrative history and, without doubt, the finest treatment of the Civil War between two covers.
Jun 28, 2024 · Professor James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, Emeritus at Princeton University. He is a leading historian of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The Negro's Civil War (1965) was one of the first books to bring to voice African-American participants in the war.
One of the nation’s leading Civil War historians, James McPherson, explores why the war remains so deeply embedded in the national psyche and identity of Ame...
James M. McPherson, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University, 1963; B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota), 1958) is an American Civil War historian, and the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University.
