
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1958 Danforth fellow, 1958-62 Proctor & Gamble faculty fellowship Īnisfield Wolff Award in Race Relations, Cleveland Foundation, 1965, for The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction Guggenheim fellow, 1967-58 Huntington fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1977-78 Huntington Seaver fellow, 1987-88 National Book Award nomination, 1988, National Book Critics Circle nomination, 1988, Pulitzer Prize in history, 1989, Distinguished Book Award, U.S. Organization of American Historians, Protect Historic America (president, 1993-94), Society of American Historians (president, 2000-01) American Philosophical Society, American Historical Association (president, 2003-04), Southern Historical Association, Phi Beta Kappa. Member of board of advisors, Lincoln Forum.

Member of advisory board, George Tyler Moore College of the Study of the Civil War, Shepherdstown, WV. Member of board of directors, Civil War Trust and Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites (now the Civil War Preservation Trust), 1991-93 member of Civil War Sites Advisory Committee, a committee created by the U.S. Consultant on the film Gettysburg, Turner Pictures, 1993 on the television documentary The Civil War by Ken Burns, Public Broadcasting System, 1999 and on the television documentary Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, Public Broadcasting System, 2001 also consultant, Social Science program, Educational Research Council, Cleveland, OH. Fellow, Behavioral Sciences Center, Stanford University, 1982-83. Commonwealth Fund Lecturer, University College, London, England, 1982. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, instructor, 1962-65, assistant professor, 1965-68, associate professor, 1968-72, professor of history, 1972-82, Edwards Professor of American History, 1982-91, George Henry Davis '86 Professor of American History, 1991. Office- Department of History, Dickinson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.

Hobbies and other interests: Tennis, bicycling, sailing, reading mystery and adventure novels, playing with his granddaughter. (magna cum laude), 1958 Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. Education: Gustavus Adolphus College, B.A. Rasche (an editor), Decemchildren: Joanna.

Born October 11, 1936, in Valley City, ND son of James Munro (a high school teacher and administrator) and Miriam (an elementary school teacher maiden name, Osborn) McPherson married Patricia A.
