James M. McPherson

1936 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Gustavus Adolphus College, Johns Hopkins University

occupation: historian, university teacher, writer

award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Lincoln Prize, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Pulitzer Prize for History, Jefferson Lecture, American Antiquarian Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Henry Allen Moe Prize

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. Source: Wikipedia (en)