Michael Perman (died July 24, 2020) was a history professor and author in the United States. He was a professor emeritus and served as chairman of the history department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.^[1] According to his Bio, Perman received his B.A. at Oxford University and his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 and 1980 and was appointed the John Adams Distinguished Professor in American History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2002 and 2003.

• Reunion Without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction, 1865–1868 (1973)
• The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869–1879 (1984)
• Emancipation and Reconstruction (1987)^[2][3]
• The Coming of the American Civil War (1993), editor
• Perspectives on the American Past (1995), editor
• Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1998), editor
• Perman, Michael (2001). Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888–1908. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807849095.
• Perman, Michael (2009). Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807872284.
• Perman, Michael (2012). The Southern Political Tradition. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807144015.