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James M. McPherson

American historian · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1936 · age 90

James Munro McPherson 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.

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2009Lincoln PrizeAward2000Jefferson LectureAward1998Lincoln PrizeAward1995Henry Allen Moe PrizeAward1989Pulitzer Prize for HistoryAward1967Guggenheim FellowshipAward1965Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsAward1936Born11 October 1936

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Lincoln Prize2009
Jefferson Lecture2000
Lincoln Prize1998
Henry Allen Moe Prize1995
Pulitzer Prize for History1989
Guggenheim Fellowship1967
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards1965
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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

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Born 1936 · age 90

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