James M Mcpherson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3629828 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James M Mcpherson |
| PRENOMES | James M |
| SOBRENOME | Mcpherson |
| ASSINATURA | MCPHERSON J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Princeton University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 84 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A very civil war
A Very Civil War is the first complete account of the important but much neglected story of Switzerlands civil war of 1847. Fought over issues similar to those of the American Civil War, the comparative civility of the Swiss warthere were fewer than one hundred casualtiesis remarkable. Indeed, a war that might have destroyed Swiss union instead contributed to a sense of cohesion and established a firm foundation for modern Swiss society. A Very C…
Very Civil War
The Struggle for Equality
Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it provided to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James McPherson explores the role played by rights activists during and after the Civil War, and their evolution from despised fanatics into influential spokespersons for the radical wing of the Republican Party. Assertin…
Paving Over the Past
West from Appomattox
Journal Article West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War Get access West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. By Richardson Heather Cox. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. xi + 396 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $20.00.) James M. McPherson James M. McPherson Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Qu…
Crossroads of Freedom
The Most Fearful Ordeal
No Peace without Victory, 1861–1865
FOR AT LEAST THE PAST TWO CENTURIES, nations have found it harder to end a war than to start one.Americans relearned that bitter lesson in Vietnam and, having apparently forgotten it, have been forced to learn it allover again in Iraq.The difficulties of achieving peace are compounded when the war aims of a belligerent include regime change in the enemy polity.In the Napoleonic Wars, the coalition forces finally ended the conflict when they force…
A Great Civil War
Writing the Civil War
No event has transformed the United States more fundamentally - or been studied more exhaustively - than the Civil War. In Writing the Civil War, fourteen distinguished historians present a wide-ranging discussion of the vast effort to chronicle the conflict - an undertaking that began with the remembrances of Civil War veterans and has become an increasingly prolific field of scholarship. Covering a variety of topics - from battlefield operation…
Writing the Civil War
Journal Article Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand. Ed. by James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper Jr., Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861–1865. By William Blair, Lincolns Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation. and The Battle of Glorieta: Union Victory in the West. Get access J. Matthew Gallman J. Matthew Gallman Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Search for oth…
With Ballot and Bayonet
In this study of what motivated soldiers to enlist and fight in this nation's most bloody conflict, Joseph Allan Frank argues that politics was central to the development of the armies of the North and South: motivating soldiers, molding the organization, defining the qualifications of officers, shaping fighting styles, and framing the nature of relations between the army and society. This study relies on the letters and diaries of more than a th…
Lamson of the Gettysburg
In Not So Dubious Battle
We Cannot Escape History
Drawn with the Sword
For Cause and Comrades
Journal Article For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War. By James M. McPherson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xviii, 237 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-19-509023-3 and The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat. By Earl J. Hess. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xii, 244 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0837-0 Get access Carl J. Guarneri Carl J. Guarneri Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, California Search…
The American Heritage New History of the Civil War
Journal Article The American Heritage New History of the Civil War. By Bruce Catton. Ed. by James M. McPherson New York and Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War. By James M. McPherson New York Get access Thomas A. Desjardin Thomas A. Desjardin Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, J…
We Cannot Escape History
A who's who of Lincoln scholars explores why Lincoln considered the Union the last best hope of earth and how his words and deeds have continued to shape the nation through modern times. Focusing on Lincoln's view of American history and his legacy for the United States and the world, this volume demonstrates the complexity of the problems Lincoln faced and the genius of his leadership in preserving the nation while purging it of slavery
An Uncommon Soldier
What They Fought For, 1861-1865
What They Fought For, 1861-1865
Journal Article What They Fought For, 1861–1865. By James M. McPherson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. xviii, 88 pp. $16.95, ISBN 0-8071-1904-0.) Get access Peter Knupfer Peter Knupfer Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Page 253, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082023 Published: 01 June 1995
What They Fought For, 1861-1865
The Civil War and the Quest for Originality
Lincoln, the War President
Five Pulitzer Prize-winning historians--Carl Degler, James McPherson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., David Brion Davis, and Robert Bruce--join eminent historian Kenneth Stampp and editor Boritt to offer a new understanding of that revolutionary epoch in American history, and of the role of the leader who helped transform the nation. All but one essay published here for the first time. 20 halftones
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Since its publication twenty five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new introduction, Eric Foner puts his argument into th…
Blacks in America
Journal Article Blacks in America: Bibliographical Essays. By James M. McPherson, Laurence B. Holland, James M. Banner, Jr., Nancy J. Weiss, and Michael D. Bell. (Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1971. xxii + 430 pp. Index. $8.95.) Get access Gilbert Osofsky Gilbert Osofsky University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 117–11…
The Fight Against the Gag Rule
Antislavery Reconsidered
Journal Article Antislavery Reconsidered: New Perspectives on the Abolitionists. Ed. by Lewis Perry and Michael Fellman. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. xvi + 348 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $20.00.) Get access James M. McPherson James M. McPherson Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 2, September 1980, Pages 415–416, htt…
Abolitionists and the Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Struggle for Equality
Journal Article The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By James M. McPherson. Princeton: Princeton University Press and The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. By James M. McPherson. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. Get access H. L. Swint H. L. Swint Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
New Perspective on Race and Slavery in America
Journal Article New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Ed. by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. ix + 206 pp. $19.00.) Get access James M. McPherson James M. McPherson Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Pages 997–998, https://do…
The Abolitionist Legacy
Journal Article The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP. By James M. McPherson. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. xiii + 438 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, note on sources, and index. Cloth, $20.00, paper, $12.50.) Get access Emma Lou Thornbrough Emma Lou Thornbrough Butler University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 3, Dece…
The Struggle for Equality, Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Battle Cry of Freedom
Lincoln and Black Freedom
Journal Article Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership. By LaWanda Cox. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981. xiii + 254 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $17.95.) Get access James M. McPherson James M. McPherson Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 707–708, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
The Negro's Civil War
The Fight Against the Gag Rule
Clement Eaton, The Growth of Southern Civilization, 1790-1860
Grant or Greeley? The Abolitionist Dilemma in the Election of 1872
THE important role in Liberal Republican I872 played by such erstwhile Free-Soilers and antislavery Republicans as Charles Francis Adams, Salmon P. Chase, Horace Greeley, George W. Julian, Carl Schurz, Charles Sumner, and Lyman Trumbull noted by contemporaries and historians alike. Julian, for example, wrote in his memoirs that he delighted by presence of old Free Soilers I848 and I852 at Liberals' Convention. And a careful historian has stated t…
Abolitionist and Negro Opposition to Colonization during the Civil War
The Struggle for Equality
Preface to the Princeton Classics Edition ix Preface xiii Key to Abbreviations xvii Introduction 3 I The Election of 1860 9 II Secession and the Coming of War 29 III The Emancipation Issue: 1861 52 IVEmancipation and Public Opinion: 1861-1862 75 V The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment 99 VI The Negro: Innately Inferior or Equal? 134 VII Freedmen's Education: 1861-1865 154 VIII The Creation of the Freedmen's Bureau 178 IX Men …
Abolitionists and the Freedmen
Abolitionists and the Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Struggle for Equality
Journal Article The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. By James M. McPherson. Princeton: Princeton University Press and The Negro's Civil War: How American Negroes Felt and Acted During the War for the Union. By James M. McPherson. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. Get access H. L. Swint H. L. Swint Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…
The Negro's Civil War
Joel Williamson, After Slavery
The Struggle for Equality, Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction
Coercion or Conciliation? Abolitionists Debate President Hayes's Southern Policy
WENDELL Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison are not exactly extinct forces in American politics, declared the New York Times on June 1, 1876, they represent ideas in regard to the South which the great majority of the Republican Party have outgrown. The Times thus epitomized both the attitude of the northern public toward Reconstruction and the resulting dilemma of those old-line abolitionists still alive in 1876. Following the destruction of sla…
Fiftieth Anniversary of The Journal of Negro History
White over Black
From Plantation to Ghetto
The Radical Republicans
White Liberals and Black Power in Negro Education, 1865-1915
White Liberals and Black Power in Negro Education, 1865–1915
White Liberals and Black Power in Negro Education, 1865–1915 Get access James M. McPherson James M. McPherson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 75, Issue 5, June 1970, Pages 1357–1386, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/75.5.1357 Published: 01 June 1970
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Since its publication twenty five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new introduction, Eric Foner puts his argument into th…
To Die Game
Blacks in America
Journal Article Blacks in America: Bibliographical Essays. By James M. McPherson, Laurence B. Holland, James M. Banner, Jr., Nancy J. Weiss, and Michael D. Bell. (Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1971. xxii + 430 pp. Index. $8.95.) Get access Gilbert Osofsky Gilbert Osofsky University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 1, June 1972, Pages 117–11…
Wild arcs in three-space. I. Families of Fox-Artin arcs
Core
From Contraband to Freedman
A Compromise of Principle
Journal Article A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869, by Michael Les Benedict Get access A Compromise of Principle: Congressional Republicans and Reconstruction, 1863-1869 by Michael Les Benedict. New york, W. W. Norton & Company, 1974.— 493 pp. $18.95. James M. McPherson James M. McPherson Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science …
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