James m mcpherson biography

American historian (born 1936)

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. McPherson was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003.

James m mcpherson biography

Early life and education

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 under C. Vann Woodward.^[1]

Career

McPherson joined the faculty of Princeton in 1962.^[1] His works include The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstr