Henry Bamford Parkes (13 November 1904 7 January 1972) was an author and professor of

history at New York University. He was born in Sheffield, England.

After reading history at Oxford University, Parkes came to the United States to pursue graduate
studies at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan in 1929 and joined the
history faculty of New York University in 1930. He had also lectured at Barnard College,
the University of Wyoming, the New School for Social Research and theUniversity of Washington.
From 1956-57, Parkes was a Fulbright Fellow, working at the University of Athens in Greece.