James Ford Rhodes (May 1, 1848–January 22, 1927) was an industrialist and historian. His major work was History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, and he received the Loubat Prize of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and the gold medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Bibliography

History of the United States from the compromise of 1850. By James Ford Rhodes. New York, Harper, 1895.

History of the United States from the compromise of 1850 to the final restoration of home rule at the South in 1877. New York, London, The Macmillan company, 1909-19.

History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley Bryan campaign of 1896. 8 vols. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1967.

Historical essays, by James Ford Rhodes. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1909.

The McKinley and Roosevelt administrations, 1897-1909. By James Ford Rhodes New York, The Macmillan Company, 1922.

History of the civil war, 1861-1865: New York, The Macmillan company, 1937.

History of the Civil War, 1861-1865. By James Ford Rhodes; edited, with an introduction, by E.B. Long ; introduction to the Dover edition by John Herbert Roper Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1999.

The barber and the historian: the correspondence of George A. Myers and James Ford Rhodes, 1910-1920. Edited by John A. Garraty. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, 1956.