James Merrell

|birth_place=Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |education=Lawrence University
Johns Hopkins University (PhD) |occupation=Historian |awards=Frederick Jackson Turner Award (1990)
Merle Curti Award (1990)
Bancroft Prize (1990, 2000) }} James Hart Merrell (born 1953 in Minnesota) is the Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History Emeritus at Vassar College. Merrell is primarily a scholar of early American history, and has written extensively on Native American history during the colonial era. He is one of only five historians to be awarded the Bancroft Prize twice. Provided by Wikipedia