James McPherson Quotes
Perspectives change.
Citations
James McPherson, Historian, Interview, C-SPAN Book TV, March 4, 2001
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James M. "Jim" McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and 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.