Francis Parkman Jr. (1823–1893) was a wellknown American historian of the nineteenth century, noted especially for his works on the history of the American frontier, including The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and England and France in North America. Also among his writings were essays rejecting the idea of women’s suffrage. One of these, Some of the Reasons against Woman Suffrage, was printed as a pamphlet around 1883, and the essay was read in the U.S. Senate and considered in arguments concerning women’s suffrage. Because of his prestige as a scholar and member of the Boston Athenaeum, one of the United States’ first independent libraries, his anti-suffrage works were republished and used by groups opposed to extending the franchise to women well into the twentieth century.