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Sep 14, 2016 · Perhaps no American historian stirs a more impassioned response than Frederick Jackson Turner. His ideas about the western frontier were both admired and maligned, sparking controversy across decades. He wasn’t the first American to call attention to the frontier, but he was the first to say outright that the frontier explained America.
Frederick Jackson Turner, “Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893) Perhaps the most influential essay by an American historian, Frederick Jackson Turner’s address to the American Historical Association on “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” defined for many Americans the relationship between the frontier and American culture and contemplated what ...
The Eloquence of FrederickJ ackson Turner (San Marino, CA, 1983). Among those who defended the Turnerian vision, Ray Allen Billington was by far the most stalwart and energetic; see his America's Frontier Heritage, as well as his biography of Turner, Frederick Jackson Turner:
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932) was distinguished more for a seminal idea than for any particular work. He received his PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 1890, and taught first at the University of Wisconsin from 1889 to 1910 then at Harvard until 1924.
Our early history is the study of European germs developing in an American environment. Too exclusive attention has been paid by institutional students to the Germanic origins, too little to the American factors. The frontier is the line of most rapid and effective Americanization. The wilderness masters the colonist.
Explain the evolution of American interest in foreign affairs from the end of the Civil War through the early 1890s. Identify the contributions of Frederick Jackson Turner and Alfred Thayer Mahan to the conscious creation of an American empire. During the time of Reconstruction, the U.S. government showed no significant initiative in foreign ...
The Significance of the Frontier in American History" is a seminal essay by the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner which advanced the Frontier thesis of American history. Turner's thesis had a significant impact on how people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries understood American identity, character, and national growth.
