James McPherson

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Acclaimed Civil War Historian & Author

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James McPherson Biography

James M. McPherson is one of the nation's most renowned historians of the American Civil War era. His award-winning career has spanned four decades, and includes such highly prestigious honors as Pulitzer Prize, two Lincoln Prizes, the NEH's Jefferson Lectureship in the Humanities, and a term as the president of the American Historical Association.

McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History emeritus at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1962. He received his PhD in 1963 from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with C. Vann Woodward.

He has written more than 15 books and edited another dozen, mostly on the era of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, including Battle Cry Freedom: The Civil War Era, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1989. The Washington Post, much like many other reviewers, hailed it as the "finest single volume on the war and its background."

He is also the author of numerous other acclaimed books, including the New York Times best-seller Crossroads of Freedom, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.

Scanning the social, military, economic, and political events that became entwined in the events of the Civil War, McPherson shares with audiences a riveting, thoroughly researched account of this momentous time in American history. His masterful, instructive tour of the politics, personalities, and campaigns that defined the War Between the States will inform and enlighten, as will his insights into how what happened over 150 years ago -- the "second American Revolution" -- still impacts the American landscape today.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/02/2024.

James McPherson Videos

  • James McPherson: Why the Civil War Still Matters
    One of the nation’s leading Civil War historians, James McPherson, explores why the war remains so deeply embedded in the national psyche and...
  • Forever Free: An Evening with Prof. James McPherson & Prof. Allen Guelzo
    Forever Free: An Evening with Professor Allen Guelzo and Princeton University Professor Emeritus James McPherson. A conversation between Dr. Guelzo...
  • James M. McPherson - War on the Waters

James McPherson Books

  • War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)
    War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 (Littlefield History of the Civil War Era)
  • This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
    This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
  • Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
    Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
  • Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
  • Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier
    Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier
  • Atlas Of The Civil War
    Atlas Of The Civil War

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