John Mack Faragher

John Mack Faragher (born Phoenix, Arizona) is an American historian.

Born in 1945, he was raised in southern California, the oldest of eight children.

He graduated from the University of California, Riverside in 1967, did social work for several years, then graduated from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1977.

He taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1978 to 1993; then at Yale University from 1993 until his retirement as Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies in 2016.

With Mari Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan Armitage he is author of Out of Many, A History of the American People.