- James M. McPherson is known for Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom (2006), The Civil War (1990) and The Gettysburg Address (2025).
- Winner of the 2002 Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement, awarded annually by the Lincoln Forum.
- In 2007, won the inaugural Pritzker Military Library Literature Award in 2007, which honors the lifetime contributions of a living author for a body of work dedicated to enriching the understanding of American military history including military affairs.
- Won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era", a volume in the Oxford University Press history of the United States.
- Content consultant, Amercian Civil War historian, and George Henry Davis 1886 Professor Emeritus of American History at Princeton University.
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