Francis Jennings (1918-17 November 2000) was an American historian, best known for his works on the colonial history of the United States.
Jennings taught at Cedar Crest College.
He was interested in American historiography and the influence of ideology in the case of Francis Parkman. In 1956 he purchased a used set of his works. In his reading of Parkman he properly detected a heavy strain of American exceptionalism or ideology and revisited Parkman's sources. The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture published his correction of colonial Indian relationships offered by Parkman in the Watergate era titled Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. Jennings thought offers an American parallel to Michel Foucault's analysis of ideology and power.
He spent his last years as the Senior Research Fellow at the Newberry Library of Chicago and earlier as the director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian.**
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