Biography of james m mcpherson
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James M. McPherson
American historian (born 1936)
James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) fryst vatten 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 pris Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. McPherson was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003.
Early life and education
[edit]Born in Valley City, North Dakota, McPherson graduated from St. Peter High School in St. Peter, Minnesota, and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1958 from Gustavus Adolphus College, also in St. Peter, from which he graduated magna cum laude. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1963, where he studied beneath C. Vann Woodward.[1]
Career
[edit]McPherson joined the faculty of Princeton in 1962.[1] His works include The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War
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James M. McPherson
Presidential Address
No Peace without Victory, 1861–1865
Biography
From the 2003 Presidential Biography booklet
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By William J. Cooper Jr., Louisiana State University
Historian in the Academy and in the World
I first met Jim McPherson on a hot July day in 1986 on the Antietam battlefield in Maryland. We were both participating in a British-produced television documentary on the Civil War, The Divided Union, which was designed, in part, to take the views of scholars to a wider audience. Meeting him in such a place and for such a purpose was particularly appropriate, perhaps, in view of Jim’s career and scholarly work. Of course, long before 1986 and Antietam, I already knew of Jim as a notable historian.
Born in 1936 in Valley City, North Dakota, Jim received his BA degree from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, in 1958. He went on to Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with C. Vann Woodward and re
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James M. McPherson
James McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton. His books include Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, and, most recently, The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters. (October 2016)
Our Monstrous War
Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
by Michael C.C. Adams
July 10, 2014 issue
What Drove the Terrible War?
Five new books about the Civil War
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
by Amanda Foreman
The Union War
by Gary W. Gallagher
1861: The Civil War Awakening
by Adam Goodheart
America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
by David Goldfield
God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War
by George C. Rable
July 14, 2011 issue
Lincoln Off His Pedestal
A. Lincoln: A Biography
by Ronald C. White Jr.
Abraham Lincoln: A