Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman

Parkman Memorial in Jamaica Plain (Mass.)

Francis Parkman (born September 16, 1823 in Boston , † November 8, 1893 in Jamaica Plain ( Massachusetts )) was an American historian.

In his youth Parkman lived at times among Indians and described this in The Oregon Trail of 1849. Parkman later became a professor at Harvard . In 1855 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In his work he examined the North American colonial history. His main work is the complete overview in seven volumes France and England in North America , on which he worked from 1865 to 1892.

The Francis Parkman Prize is named in his honor . His Boston house under the name Francis Parkman House as a National Historic Landmark in the National Register of Historic Places entered.

Works

• The Oregon Trail (1847)
• The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1851)
• Vassall Morton (1856), novel
• The Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)
• The Book of Roses (1866)
• The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (1867)
• La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1869)
• The Old Régime in Canada (1874)
• Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877)
• Montcalm and Wolfe (1884)
• A Half Century of Conflict (1892)

modern editions

• France and England in North America . 2 volumes, ed. by David Levin. Library of America , New York 1983.
• The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac . Edited by William R. Taylor. Library of America, New York 1991.
• The Journals of Francis Parkman . 2 volumes, ed. by Mason Wade. Harper, New York 1947.
• The Letters of Francis Parkman . 2 volumes, ed. by Wilbur R. Jacobs. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1960.

Secondary literature

• Charles Haight Farnham: A Life of Francis Parkman . Little, Brown, and Co., Boston 1900.
• Robert L. Gale: Francis Parkman (= Twayne's United States Authors Series 220). Twayne, New York 1973, ISBN 0-8057-0582-1 .
• Wilbur R. Jacobs: Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero: The Formative Years . University of Texas Press, Austin 1991, ISBN 0-292-72467-5 .
• Francis Jennings : Francis Parkman: A Brahmin among Untouchables . In: The William and Mary Quarterly 42: 3, 1985, pp. 305-328.
• David Levin: History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman . Stanford University Press, Stanford CA 1959.
• Otis A. Pease: Parkman's History: The Historian as Literary Artist . Yale University Press, New Haven 1953.
• Hans Schmidt: Francis Parkman as a historian . In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 53, 1971, pp. 140–153.
• Henry Dwight Sedgwick: Francis Parkman . Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston 1904.
• Richard C. Vitzthum: The American Compromise: Theme and Method in the Histories of Bancroft, Parkman, and Adams . University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1974.
• Mason Wade: Francis Parkman: Heroic Historian . Viking, New York 1942.

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