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Research Topics on: francis parkman

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Books on: francis parkman

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Journal Articles on: francis parkman

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Magazine Articles on: francis parkman

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Newspaper Articles on: francis parkman

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    The Changing Uses of Leisure
    Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, August 15, 1999
    Subjects: 
    Kammen, Michael
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Pulitzer Prize. His "A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture" (1986) won the Francis Parkman and Henry Adams prizes. Echoes of his "The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism...
     
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    How American Indians Fought British after France Left
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 1, 2002
    Subjects: 
    Automobile industry, Pontiac Div.
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...American Revolution. Traditionally the war has taken its name from its most visible figure, the Ottawa leader Pontiac. Francis Parkman, writing in a romantic age celebrating the heroic individual, portrayed Pontiac as a Satanic genius of the forest...
     
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    Marble Angel Mourns 3 Brothers; Work by Lincoln Memorial Sculptor Widely Acclaimed
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 8, 2009
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    Melvin, James
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Melvin Memorial is the larger-than-life angel of Mourning Victory. In a previous design, for author and historian Francis Parkman, French experimented with a figure of an American Indian emerging from a marble shaft, but aesthetic problems remained...
     
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    Fund Drive to Restore Versailles' Old Glory
    Newspaper article by Liz Trotta; The Washington Times, February 4, 1999
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...reflecting "La Gloire." So grand were the plans of the royal decorators and so costly to the French treasury, that Francis Parkman, an American historian from Boston, wrote in 1884: "Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured...
     
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    Textbook Terror in a Visual Age; America-Bashing on the Rise
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 12, 2004
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...nature, with no recognition that American Indians, like the rest of us, are subject to human frailty and prejudice. Francis Parkman, the historian who describes the pleasure Iroquois took in torturing the Hurons, is anathema, and gone with the...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: francis parkman

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    Parkman, Francis
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    PARKMAN, FRANCIS 1823 93, American historian, b. Boston. In 1846, Parkman started a journey along the Oregon Trail to improve...physically and moved to Brattleboro, Vt. There Parkman dictated to his cousin The Oregon Trail, published...
     
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    American Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...attacker of conventional religion; and the polemicist Francis Hopkinson , who was also the first American musical...historians William Hickling Prescott , George Bancroft , Francis Parkman , and John Lothrop Motley . Their solemn histories were...
     
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    French and Indian Wars
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...with it Acadia , fell (1710) to an expedition under Francis Nicholson and was confirmed to the British in the Peace...classic works in English on the conflict are those of Francis Parkman . See also W. Wood, The Passing of New France (1915...
     
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    Massachusetts
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...ruthlessly exploited. The power loom, perfected by Francis Cabot Lowell , as well as English techniques for textile...the historians George Bancroft, John Lothrop Motley, Francis Parkman, and William Hickling Prescott; and the scientist...
     
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    History
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...In the United States, romantic historians, such as George Bancroft , William H. Prescott , John L. Motley , and Francis Parkman were followed by such brilliant and questioning men as Henry Adams . The broader interest in the philosophy of history...
     

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