James M. McPherson | Academic Influence

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James McPherson was born in Valley City, North Dakota in 1936. He earned a B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College and a PhD at Johns Hopkins University. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for his book, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, he is an esteemed Civil War historian and scholar.

McPherson was honored as the Jefferson Lecturer by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2000 for his exemplary work and scholarship in raising awareness of America’s history, most notably during the American Civil War. In 2007, he became the first ever recipient of the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award.

He has been a strong advocate for the preservation of Civil War monuments and battlegrounds and has served on numerous boards for the historical preservation of such sites. His fervent study of America’s Civil War history has given him a nuanced viewpoint on how America should commemorate this part of its past, leading him to ask then President Barack Obama to avoid laying a wreath at the Confederate Monument Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, suggesting that to do so gives encouragement to the continued reverence of Confederate ideas.

Today, James McPherson is the George Henry Davis Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University and a member of the board for Encyclopedia Britannica.

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According to Wikipedia, James Munro 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: The Civil War Era. McPherson was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003.

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Homophily in voluntary organizations: Status distance and the composition of face-to-face groups. (1987) (1161)
Social Networks and Organizational Dynamics (1992) (513)
Women and Weak Ties: Differences by Sex in the Size of Voluntary Organizations (1982) (308)
Population density and pathology: what are the relations for man? (1972) (297)
Sex Segregation in Voluntary Associations (1986) (273)
On the Edge or In Between: Niche Position, Niche Overlap, and the Duration of Voluntary Association Memberships (1995) (260)
Gender, children, and social contact : The effects of childrearing for men and women (1997) (242)
Evolution on a Dancing Landscape: Organizations and Networks in Dynamic Blau Space (1991) (226)
Hypernetwork sampling: Duality and differentiation among voluntary organizations (1982) (202)
Sex and Race Homogeneity in Naturally Occurring Groups (1995) (111)
A Dynamic Model of Voluntary Affiliation (1981) (110)
Competition and Commitment in Voluntary Memberships: The Paradox of Persistence and Participation (1997) (87)
System Size and Structural Differentiation in Formal Organizations: A Baseline Generator for Two Major Theoretical Propositions (1972) (83)
Measuring the Composition of Voluntary Groups: A Multitrait-Multimethod Analysis. (1995) (45)
The System of Occupations: Modeling Occupations in Sociodemographic Space (2001) (43)
The Longitudinal Study of Voluntary Association Memberships: a Multivariable Analysis (1980) (27)
The Struggle For Equality (1964) (25)
Modeling change in fields of organizations: Some simulation results. (2000) (6)
The Market for Members: Competition, Facilitation and Inhibition of Voluntary Affiliation (1989) (2)
8. A Brief for Equality: The Abolitionist Reply to the Racist Myth, 1860-1865 (1965) (1)
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SYSTEM FOR ADUSTING AT LEAST ONE SYSTEM COMPONENT AND METHOD FOR MONITORING THE FUNCTION OF SUCH A GUIDANCE SYSTEM (2017) (0)
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