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    Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and...
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  • The Francis Parkman Prize, named after Francis Parkman, is awarded by the Society of American Historians for the best book in American history each year...
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    The Francis Parkman House is a National Historic Landmark at 50 Chestnut Street, on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts. Speculated to be designed by...
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  • Parkman may refer to: People Francis Parkman (1823–1893) His uncle George Parkman (1790–1849), the victim in the Parkman-Webster murder case Places in...
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  • Francis Parkman Coffin (April 5, 1880 – August 19, 1956) was an American electrical engineering pioneer. He was a leader in research and development for...
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    National Book Award in History, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Cornelius Ryan Award. Later in 1977, McCullough travelled...
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    positions on the high ground and behind large trees. According to Francis Parkman, Ranger casualties were 14 killed, 6 captured, and 6 wounded, the wounded...
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    had five children: Elizabeth (1785), Francis (1788), George (1790), Samuel (1791), and Daniel (1794). Samuel Parkman had also had six children by his previous...
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    National Book Awards (including one for Lifetime Achievement), the Francis Parkman Prize (awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that...
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    French and Indians were usually peaceful. As the 19th-century historian Francis Parkman stated: "Spanish civilization crushed the Indian; English civilization...
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  • influence of ideology in the case of Francis Parkman. In 1956, he purchased a used set of his works. In his reading of Parkman he argued it contained a heavy...
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    (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) is a book written by Francis Parkman. It was initially serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's...
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    the Parkman–Webster murder case Francis Parkman Jr., historian; grandson of Samuel Parkman; nephew of George Parkman Peabody Family Elizabeth Palmer Peabody...
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  • Sinking of the "Unsinkable" Ship - Titanic (1986) Biography portal "Francis Parkman Prize for Special Achievement – The Society of American Historians"...
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  • Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1849), an influential history by Francis Parkman Oregon Trail Council, a unit of the Boy Scouts of America Oregon Trail...
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    America's first great historians, Francis Parkman, whose landmark book The Conspiracy of Pontiac was published in 1851. Parkman wrote that after the French...
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  • Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1975, as well as the Francis Parkman Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that...
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  • lively history." In 2011, Cowie received the Merle Curti Award and the Francis Parkman Prize for Stayin' Alive. Cowie's book, The Great Exception: The New...
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  • After Boston businessman George Parkman disappeared in November 1849, his dismembered and partially burned body was found in the laboratory of John Webster...
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  • is desiccated. The ideas and iconography of Cooper, Bret Harte and Francis Parkman are now transmogrified into yards of dying cattle, abandoned gasoline...
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    allowed to pick his successor, and chose Francis Parkman '15, a former administrator at Harvard College. Parkman reformed the admissions system. He increased...
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    descriptions of the event by early historians like Benson Lossing and Francis Parkman led to the belief that many more people died than actually had. Lossing...
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    the French archives. He came to be the agent of American historian Francis Parkman. Margry's work, a massive nine volumes, encompassed an assemblage of...
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    Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Quincy Adams, Margaret Fuller, Francis Parkman, Amy Lowell, John F. Kennedy, and Edward M. Kennedy. In 1803, a young...
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    2004, Jonathan Cape, London, ISBN 0-224-06245-X Parkman, Francis (1910). The works of Francis Parkman, Volume 9. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 7024122....
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    (1996), for which she won both the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American...
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    with two children. 2020 John W. Kluge Prize, Library of Congress 2015 Francis Parkman Prize 2009 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2001...
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    required less practice. However, discussing buffalo hunting in 1846, Francis Parkman noted that "the bows and arrows which the Indians use in running buffalo...
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    "Pontiac's Conspiracy" after the 1851 publication of Francis Parkman's The Conspiracy of Pontiac. Parkman's book was the definitive account of the war for nearly...
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    called into question—or flatly denied—notably by American historian Francis Parkman (Parkman has also been accused of bias, etc.). Hennepin has been denounced...
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