Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman (1823–1893) was an American historian whose narrative histories chronicled French and British colonial rivalry and conflict in North America.

New France: The French colony in North America that existed from the sixteenth century until 1763. Its growth and defeat form the central historical arc of several Parkman books.
The Oregon Trail (book): Francis Parkman’s 1849 travel narrative about his journey across the North American West. It was his first published book and drew on an 1846 journey.
George Bancroft: An American historian whose multivolume history of the United States was published between 1834 and 1874. Bancroft and Parkman became prominent nineteenth-century narrators of American history.
Francis Parkman Prize: An annual American history book prize awarded by the Society of American Historians. The prize’s continuing use of Parkman’s name reflects his lasting status in American historical writing.
British colonization of the Americas: The establishment and expansion of English and later British colonies across the Americas. Parkman set British colonial societies against France’s North American empire.
The Conspiracy of Pontiac: Francis Parkman’s 1851 history of Pontiac’s War and Indigenous resistance after the Seven Years’ War. It extended his account of imperial conflict into the aftermath of French defeat.
William Hickling Prescott: An American historian known for narrative histories of Spain and the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Prescott’s popular narrative histories helped establish the literary model Parkman pursued.
Francis Jennings: An American historian known for reassessing colonial American history from Indigenous perspectives. Jennings challenged celebratory accounts of colonization that Parkman helped popularize.
French and Indian War: The North American theater of the Seven Years’ War, fought from 1754 to 1763. This conflict culminated in the French loss of mainland North American possessions.
Pioneers of France in the New World: Francis Parkman’s history of early French exploration and colonization in North America, published in 1865. It opens his sequence of histories about France’s North American empire.

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