James M. McPherson (Valley City, 11 ottobre 1936) è uno storico statunitense.

Nato a Valley City, nello stato statunitense del Dakota del Nord, figlio di James Munro e Mirium (Osborn) McPherson. Studiò al St. Peter High School e ottenne una Bachelor of Arts al Gustavus Adolphus College nel 1858 e il suo Ph.D. al Johns Hopkins University nel 1963.

Sposò Patricia Rosche da cui ebbe una figlia, Joanna Erika.^[1]

Nel 1989 venne premiato con il premio Pulitzer per la storia per Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

• The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.
• The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965.
• Marching Toward Freedom: The Negro in the Civil War, 1861-1865. New York: Knopf, 1968.
• The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975
• Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction. New York: Knopf, 1982
• Lincoln and the Strategy of Unconditional Surrender. Gettysburg, PA: Gettysburg College, 1984.
• How Lincoln Won the War with Metaphors. Fort Wayne, IN: Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum, 1985.
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988
• Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
• What They Fought For, 1861-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1994.
• Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Is Blood Thicker than Water?: Crises of Nationalism in the Modern World. Toronto: Vintage Canada, c1998.
• Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• The Boys in Blue and Gray. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2002.
• Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg. New York: Crown Journeys, 2003.
• This Mighty Scourge. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, 2008.
• Abraham Lincoln. Oxford University Press, 2009.

• Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su James M. McPherson

• (EN) Opere di James M. McPherson, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Bibliografia di James M. McPherson, su Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Al von Ruff.
• (EN) James M. McPherson, su Goodreads.
• (EN) James M. McPherson, su IMDb, IMDb.com.

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1917–1925	Jean Jules Jusserand (1917) • James Ford Rhodes (1918) • Justin Harvey Smith (1920) • William Sowden Sims e Burton Jesse Hendrick (1921) • James Truslow Adams (1922) • Charles Warren (1923) • Charles Howard McIlwain (1924) • Frederic L. Paxson (1925)
1926–1950	Edward Channing (1926) • Samuel Flagg Bemis (1927) • Vernon Louis Parrington (1928) • Fred Albert Shannon (1929) • Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1930) • Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1931) • John Pershing (1932) • Frederick Jackson Turner (1933) • Herbert Agar (1934) • Charles McLean Andrews (1935) • Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin (1936) • Van Wyck Brooks (1937) • Paul Herman Buck (1938) • Frank Luther Mott (1939) • Carl Sandburg (1940) • Marcus Lee Hansen (1941) • Margaret Leech (1942) • Esther Forbes (1943) • Merle Curti (1944) • Stephen Bonsal (1945) • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1946) • James Phinney Baxter III (1947) • Bernard DeVoto (1948) • Roy Franklin Nichols (1949) • Oliver Waterman Larkin (1950)
1951–1975	Roscoe Carlyle Buley (1951) • Oscar Handlin (1952) • George Dangerfield (1953) • Bruce Catton (1954) • Paul Horgan (1955) • Richard Hofstadter (1956) • George Frost Kennan (1957) • Bray Hammond (1958) • Leonard Dupee White e Jean Schneider (1959) • Margaret Leech (1960) • Herbert Feis (1961) • Lawrence Henry Gipson (1962) • Constance McLaughlin Green (1963) • Sumner Chilton Powell (1964) • Irwin Unger (1965) • Perry Miller (1966) • William Goetzmann (1967) • Bernard Bailyn (1968) • Leonard Levy (1969) • Dean Acheson (1970) • James MacGregor Burns (1971) • Carl Degler (1972) • Michael Kammen (1973) • Daniel J. Boorstin (1974) • Dumas Malone (1975)
1976–2000	Paul Horgan (1976) • David Morris Potter (1977) • Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1978) • Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1979) • Leon Litwack (1980) • Lawrence A. Cremin (1981) • C. Vann Woodward (1982) • Rhys Isaac (1983) • Thomas K. McCraw (1985) • Walter A. McDougall (1986) • Bernard Bailyn (1987) • Robert Bruce (1988) • James M. McPherson e Taylor Branch (1989) • Stanley Karnow (1990) • Laurel Ulrich (1991) • Mark Neely, Jr. (1992) • Gordon Wood (1993) • Doris Goodwin (1995) • Alan Taylor (1996) • Jack Rakove (1997) • Edward Larson (1998) • Edwin Burrows e Mike Wallace (1999) • David Kennedy (2000)
2001–2025	Joseph Ellis (2001) • Louis Menand (2002) • Rick Atkinson (2003) • Steven Hahn (2004) • David Fischer (2005) • David Oshinsky (2006) • Gene Roberts e Hank Klibanoff (2007) • Daniel Howe (2008) • Annette Gordon-Reed (2009) • Liaquat Ahamed (2010) • Eric Foner (2011) • Manning Marable (2012) • Fredrik Logevall (2013) • Alan Taylor (2014) • Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015) • T.J. Stiles (2016) • Heather Ann Thompson (2017) • Jack E. Davis (2018) • David W. Blight (2019) • W. Caleb McDaniel (2020) • Marcia Chatelain (2021) • Nicole Eustace e Ada Ferrer (2022) • Jefferson Cowie (2023) • Jacqueline Jones (2024)

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