Distinguished Professor David Waldstreicher (History, Biography and Memoir, American Studies) won the prestigious Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of...
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Celebrating the bicentenary of historian Francis Parkman, who produced a picture of America's origins that remains unsurpassed.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Charles King's “Gods of the Upper Air,” a group biography on such groundbreaking anthropologists as Franz Boas,...
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Historian Francis Parkman was a romantic, and readers today might be skeptical that any such person as Isaac Jogues could have existed as Parkman “imagined”...
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Awards for literary excellence in the writing of history were given to Robert Colby, Charles King and Frances FitzGerald, who received the inaugural Tony...
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In this interview, historian Simon Schama describes his writing process and how he was drawn to George Parkman's murder.
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The Chicago Board of Education plans to vote Wednesday on a new policy that would target underenrolled schools for help rather than closure.
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The school day ended outside Francis Parkman Elementary School the way it usually does, with kids streaming out and goofing off with one another.
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Parkman Branch Manager and Librarian Tracy Massey has come full circle. Parkman was her library as a young girl; she loved the space and was...
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There's no way the Francis Parkman Playground looked like this back in 1924 when it first opened. The city recently finished a $1.7 million...
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