The complete online text of A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume 02 by Francis Parkman.

Francis Parkman (1823-1893), American historian, brilliantly narrated the Anglo-French conflict for control of North America in a great multivolume work. Francis Parkman was born to wealth in Boston, Mass., on Sept. 16, 1823. As an undergraduate at Harva...

FRANCIS PARKMAN, JR. (16 September 1823-8 November 1893), was the eldest son of the Reverend Francis Parkman, pastor of the New York Church and a leader in orthodox Unitarianism in Boston. Young Parkman shared the social prominence and affluence which ch...

Francis Parkman is regarded by many students of American history and literature as the finest narrative historian America has yet produced. Among nineteenth-century histories, his seven-part, nine-volume France and England in North America retains a fres...

THE KASHMIR CONFLICT: Bosnia Outrages Invite Comparison With Half-Century-Old Plight of Kashmir The barbaric situation in Bosnia and Kosovo has outraged the world and caused regrets that the enormous toll of human lives was not averted by timely action at an earlier stage....

The prison camp here sits alone on a mountain top - a vast crater-like plain of snow, rock and mud. At the entrance, a gate topped with crude wooden letters spelling Manjaca swings out over a muddy ditch. It is cold and quiet, a...