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Date of Birth
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11-October-1936
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Place of Birth
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Valley City
(North Dakota)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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James McPherson, MacPherson, James Munro
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Profession
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Historian, Writer, Author, Professor
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James M. 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, his most famous book. He was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003, and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica.
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