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	Meet James McPherson
		McPherson has taught at Princeton since 1962 and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History.
		Born in North Dakota and raised in Minnesota, McPherson's first fascination with the Civil War began as a graduate student in 1958 under the mentorship of C. Vann Woodward at Johns Hopkins University.
		While McPherson was in Baltimore, events similar to the abolition movement he was studying were taking place all around the country.
	www.neh.gov /whoweare/mcpherson/meet.html (877 words)

	New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America Chapter 54 -- James Alan McPherson
		James Alan McPherson was born in 1943, in Savannah, Georgia.
		McPherson became one of the first black writers to receive the MacArthur Foundation grant in 1981.
		The importance of these white friends and their contributions to his life taught McPherson the politics and arbitrariness of the color line; he credits his development as an individual and as a writer to both communities.
	cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/quashie/chapter54/custom1/deluxe-content.html (304 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - James McPherson
		American author James McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his short-story collection, Elbow Room (1977).
		McPherson confronts the issues of race and prejudice in his writings.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461521321_761581179_-1_1/James_McPherson.html (29 words)

	JAMES BIRDSEYE McPHERSON - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES BIRDSEYE McPHERSON
		McPHERSON, JAMES BIRDSEYE (1828-1864), American soldier, was born at Sandusky, Ohio, on the i4th of November 1828.
		On the 22nd of July, when the Confederates under his old classmate Hood made a sudden and violent attack on the lines held by the Army of the Tennessee, McPherson rode up, in the woods, to the enemys firing line and was killed.
		He was about to go on leave of absence in order to be married in Baltimore when he received his nomination to the command of the Army of the Tennessee, Grants and Shermans old army, which was to take part under Shermans supreme command in the campaign against Atlanta (1864).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MP/McPHERSON_JAMES_BIRDSEYE.htm (2298 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Dialogue with James McPherson--October 3, 1997
		JAMES M. McPHERSON: Well, I decided that the best way to get at their motives was to read their personal letters written mostly to family members, not subject to censorship, by soldiers who were literate, who were highly politicized by the experience of the 1850's and 1860's.
		JAMES M. McPHERSON: Well, one that comes to mind is a letter from a 33-year-old Minnesota sergeant to his wife in 1862 after he had been wounded.
		JAMES M. McPHERSON: Well, these people were products of a movement in American religious history called Second Great Awakening, a series of revivals and conversions and revitalization, especially of Protestantism in the 1820's and 1830's.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/october97/mcpherson_10-3.html (1208 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: James Alan McPherson (b. 1943)
		James Alan McPherson is among that generation of African American writers and intellectuals, including Charles Johnson and Stanley Crouch, who were inspired and mentored by Ralph Ellison.
		NGE >> Literature >> Fiction >> Authors >> James Alan McPherson (b.
		James Alan McPherson, Writer's Workshop Series (Alexandria, Va.: PBS, 1980), video.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1236 (669 words)

	Descendants of James McPherson and Ann Catherine WhitmanMcPherson Genealogy - James McPherson and Ann Catherine Whitman page 4
		James decided that it was too late to do anything that night and Selina built a fire near the tree and kept watch all night while Grandmother McPherson (Ann Whitman) took care of the children.
		In the fall of 1852, James McPherson, his wife and their families came here from Nova Scotia.
		James offered Cut-Nose the smaller bear for his share, which he gladly accepted, and in a short time the Indians had peeled Basswood bark from the trees and were off.
	www.geocities.com /imtreetoad/page4.html (1285 words)

	JAMESBIRDSEYEMcPHERSON, USA
		James Birdseye McPherson in Clyde, Ohio, on November 14, 1828.
		McPherson took part in the Campaigns of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh and the Union occupation of West Tennessee.
		McPherson rode up to investigate, ran into a group of Confederate troops, then was shot and killed as he tried to escape.
	www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USAMcPherson.html (263 words)

	James McPherson - The Wild Scotchman. Queenslands only Bushranger!
		James McPHERSON was born in Duthil, Inverness, Scotland, on 27th August, 1841, the second son of John McPHERSON, and his wife, Elspeth BRUCE, who emigrated to Australia, with their ten children in 1855.
		James appeared in court a couple of times, being remanded each time, and was being taken to Brisbane on the "Diamentina", when he managed to escape, by jumping over the side, and swimming ashore, even though he was in leg-irons at the time.
		James was captured, and taken to Sydney for trial, but, as Sir Frederick Pottinger, a policeman, was the only witness, and he was accidentally killed on his way to Sydney to give evidence, the charges were dropped.
	www.sabatech.net /scotchman (1200 words)

	James M. McPherson Named 2000 Jefferson Lecturer
		McPherson was chosen to be the 2000 Jefferson Lecturer by the National Council on the Humanities, the 26-member advisory board of NEH.
		McPherson has taught for nearly four decades at Princeton, where he holds the title of George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History.
		Published as a volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, Battle Cry of Freedom helped pave the way for the success and critical acclaim of the 1990 PBS documentary "The Civil War," for which McPherson served as an advisor.
	www.neh.gov /news/archive/20000111.html (585 words)

	Fiction: James Alan McPherson
		McPherson has been widely praised for his incisive depictions of African Americans attempting to cope with the indignities and desperations of everyday life.
		McPherson received first prize in the Atlantic Monthly short story contest in 1965, and in 1969, his first collection of short stories, Hue and Cry, was published.
		In order to access abstracts of articles by and about McPherson one needs to follow the registration guidelines.
	www.smpcollege.com /litlinks/fiction/mcpherson.htm (178 words)

	Powell's Books - Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
		James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox.
		James M. McPherson is Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University.
		Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0345359429-21 (559 words)

	Neil Pollock Website > Earlwood > Sydney > Australia > History > McPherson
		The Children of James McPherson (1880-1949) and Maud(e) Meier (1882-1954)
		Tragically James was killed at Cluny near Falmouth on the 7th October 1858 aged 10 "by the accidental upsetting of a bullock dray".
		It is a Highland name, and the McPherson Clan was centred in the Badenoch area of the Grampians; in the middle of the Highlands.
	www.feefree.com.au /neilpollock/history/mcpherson.html (4424 words)

	James Birdseye McPherson, Major General, Union Commander, Army of Tennessee
		The initial fault of the movement was not McPherson's caution but in Sherman's decision to use the bulk of his army in a feint movement at Dalton and committing McPherson's small army to bear the burden of Johnston's attack.
		McPherson was stationed in San Francisco at the outbreak of the war.
		McPherson from his engineering studies of the area, knew that North Georgia would be rough country for the movement of troops.
	ngeorgia.com /people/mcpherson.html (1685 words)

	James Alan McPherson at Kelly Writer's House - P.A.W. Print - Philadelphia Arts Writers
		A gifted storyteller, James Allan McPherson then culled examples from his recent experiences to describe the writer's role in contemporary society and what it means to be a natural human being.
		James Alan McPherson is also the author of novels Hue and Cry, Raiload, and Crabcakes.
		For McPherson, the short story is the perfect vehicle with which to celebrate the ordinary person.
	www.philadelphiawriters.com /articles/06_2004/mcpherson.htm (407 words)

	James McPherson
		James M. McPherson, a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author of many books on the Civil War, most recently The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford).
	www.thenation.com /directory/bios/james_m_mcpherson (29 words)

	James McPherson Worries About History Without Letters
		James M. McPherson served as president of the American Historical Assocation in 2003.
		Posted: Monday, May 30, 2005 at 11:57 am ET Yesterday, historian James McPherson was interviewed on NPR's "Weekend Edition, Sunday" program about why soldiers fight.
		In the interview, McPherson, a history professor at Princeton University, made the interesting point that his work, along with that of other historians, is largely based in the reading and analysis of letters.
	www.albertmohler.com /blog_read.php?id=90 (161 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - McPherson, James Alan
		McPherson, James Alan, born in 1943, American writer, whose fiction and journalism offer a powerful critique of prejudice in America.
		MSN Encarta - Search View - McPherson, James Alan
		In 1968, the year McPherson earned his L.L.B. degree from Harvard, The Atlantic awarded him its so-called First Award, presented to promising writers for their first publication in a major magazine, and in 1969 the magazine gave him a writer's grant.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761581179__1/McPherson_James_Alan.html (332 words)

	Amazon.com: Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam (Pivotal Moments in American History): Books: James M. McPherson
		James McPherson's, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, is an in-depth analysis of the historical significance of the battle of Antietam.
		James McPherson's monograph on the significance of the battle of Antietam was tremendous.
		McPherson writes, "instead of the Southern patriotism expected by the Confederate invaders, residents of western Maryland manifested a deep-felt and unexpected American patriotism." McPherson argues this sudden shift in morale ignited the Union's desire for victory.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195135210?v=glance (4217 words)

	James B. McPherson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Birdseye McPherson (November 14, 1828– July 22, 1864) was a career U.S. Army officer who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
		McPherson was well-loved by his troops, and his presence was sorely missed in the Western theater of operations.
		McPherson's troops followed the Confederates "vigorously", and were resupplied at Kingston, Georgia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_B._McPherson (773 words)

	James McPherson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James McPherson is the name of two famous people:
		United States History professor and Civil War historian James M. McPherson
		United States Civil War General James B. McPherson
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_McPherson (92 words)

	McPherson's Left Wing Politics
		James McPherson himself signed the petition of 400 so-called constitutional scholars defending Clinton and opposing his impeachment as is documented here.
		McPherson nevertheless weighed in stating that the Constitution's requirements for impeachment "mean public offenses" along with the implication that Clinton's offense had not been a public offense.
		McPherson mocked the 2000 GOP national convention implying it was staged to avoid conflict, suggesting everybody knew this, and then concluding that there was no point of even bothering with watching it.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/710706/posts (6228 words)

	Kelly Writers House Fellows - James Alan McPherson
		James Alan McPherson is among the most revered authors living and writing in the United States.
		James Alan McPherson interview/conversation - A recording of the April 20, 2004 audiocast of the interview and conversation with James Alan McPherson, moderated by
		James Alan McPherson reading - A digital recording of the April 19, 2004 event where McPherson read from his work.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~whfellow/mcpherson.html (154 words)

	James McPherson: Nihil Obstat - by Lewis J. Goldberg SierraTimes.com
		James McPherson's name shows up not only in the front covers of books written by other contemporary authors, but also in historical reprints.
		James McPherson almost single-handedly enforces the Unionist point of view going into the twenty-first century.
		Civil War scholars have generated their own Nihil Obstat policy in recent decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson being the primary signatory.
	www.sierratimes.com /goldberg.htm (419 words)

	James Alan McPherson (b. 1943)
		The relationship of oral story-telling as an initiation ritual to McPherson's craft of fiction writing, particularly his resolve to initiate readers of all races into a facet of their culture passing quickly out of sight.
		The complexity and richness as well as the hardships of the lives lived by black traveling men; the initiative and kinship developed by the black workers; the qualities of the trickster; also the ways racism surcharges the attempts by blacks and whites to master situations and each other.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/mcpherso.html (235 words)

	General James Birdseye McPherson
		One year later, on July 22, 1864, McPherson, at the age of thirty-six, was killed during the Atlanta Campaign as he rode into enemy skirmishers, under the command of General John Bell Hood, a former classmate of McPherson at West Point..
		McPherson had come a long way from a meager childhood to the nation's most prestigious military academy.
		McPherson's participation in the Battle of Raymond represented a first for him.
	battleofraymond.org /command4.htm (569 words)

	Major General James Birdseye McPherson
		Born in Clyde, Ohio, in 1828, James Birdseye McPherson left home at 13 to clerk in a store in nearby Green Springs.
		Killed in an ambush in 1864 near Atlanta, Major-General McPherson was the highest-ranking Union officer killed in the Civil War.
		When the Civil War began, McPherson served under General Ulysses S. Grant, who appointed him in 1863 to lead the Army of the Tennessee.
	www.sandusky-county-scrapbook.net /McPherson.htm (94 words)

	Oxford University Press: The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: James M. McPherson
		James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History at Princeton University and the President of the American Historical Association.
		Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson offers a masterful portrait of the bloody one-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War
		McPherson has selected all the illustrations, including rare contemporary photographs, period cartoons, etchings, woodcuts, and paintings, carefully choosing those that best illuminate the narrative.
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/CivilWarReconstruction/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9MDE5NTE1OTAxMg== (685 words)

	Salon.com Books "Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam 1862" by James M. McPherson
		McPherson masterfully paces the story, guiding us through the tangle of the domestic and international prelude to the battle with prose at once elegant and economical.
		As McPherson states: "Perhaps no consequence of Antietam was more momentous than this one." Certainly Antietam served as a catalyst for the transition from slavery to freedom for African-Americans.
		As McPherson cites: "The textile industry was the leading sector of the British economy and was important in France as well.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2002/09/17/mcpherson/index1.html (1117 words)

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