James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson (Valley City, 11 ottobre 1936) è uno storico statunitense.
Biografia
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
Opere
- 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.
Note
- ^ Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 1573561118. pag 319
Altri progetti
Altri progetti
- Wikimedia Commons
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Collegamenti esterni
- (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) |
Controllo di autorità | VIAF (EN) 27079108 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0001 1874 1841 · Europeana agent/base/64552 · LCCN (EN) n50007860 · GND (DE) 112875955 · BNE (ES) XX1670228 (data) · BNF (FR) cb12025360r (data) · J9U (EN, HE) 987007265258405171 · NSK (HR) 000387297 |
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