Illinois Authors

Benjamin Franklin was a man of genius and enormous ego, smart enough not to flaunt his superiority but to let others proclaim it. To understand him and his role in great events, one must realize the omnipresence of this ego, and the extent to which he mirrored the feelings of other colonial Pennsylvanians. With this in mind, Francis Jennings sets forth some new ideas about Franklin as the "first American." In so doing, he provides a new view of the beginnings of the.

Norton, New York : ©1988.

Replica Books, Bridgewater, N.J. : 1998, ©1988.

Examines the Seven Years War in the context of imperial aggressions, Indian tribes incited to raid, and British colonists' resistance.

Norton, New York : ©1984.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; 2000.

Presents a realistic picture of a privileged elite who are dreaming of empires, who clone their own empire from the British. Shows that the colonists from the first intended to conquer American Indians. Some colonists bought African as slaves and rigidly ruled over them. Interprets the revolutionary rhetoric about liberty and virtue as war propaganda.

Norton, New York : ©1993.

How Indians discovered the land, pioneered in it, and created great classical civilzations; how they were plunged into a Dark Age by invasion and conquest; and how they are now reviving.

Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolin Chapel Hill : [1975]

The cultural devastation of Atlantic coastal Indian tribes by European civilization, particularly New England Puritans, and the creation of an ideology to justify the cruelty are studied.

Norton, New York : 1976, ©1975.

Examines the relationship between European settlers and Native Americans in colonial America, concentrating on New England, and argues that the European settlement should be viewed as a conquest.