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  1. Frontier Thesis

    The Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner's Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations. He stressed the process of "winning a wilderness" to extend the frontier line ...

  2. PDF Frederick Jackson Turner, 'The Significance of the Frontier in American

    The Forum December, 1893, reviewing Goldwin Smith's 'History of the United States.'" The present text is that of the Report of the American Historical Association for 1893, 199-227. . . . [Footnote in address as reprinted in Turner, The Frontier in American History, 1920] 1 In 1817 John C. Calhoun represented South Carolina in the U.S ...

  3. The Significance of the Frontier in American History

    "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.

  4. The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)

    As frontier States accrued to the Union the national power grew. In a speech on the dedication of the Calhoun monument Mr. Lamar explained: "In 1789 the States were the creators of the Federal Government; in 1861 the Federal Government was the creator of a large majority of the States.".

  5. Frederick Jackson Turner

    Whereas in his 1893 essay he celebrated the pioneers for the spirit of individualism that spurred migration westward, 25 years later Turner castigated "these slashers of the forest, these self-sufficing pioneers, raising the corn and livestock for their own need, living scattered and apart." For Turner the national problem was "no longer how to cut and burn away the vast screen of the ...

  6. Frederick Jackson Turner, "Significance of the Frontier in American

    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 ...

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    Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" 1893 This brief official statement marks the closing of a great historic movement. Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and ...

  8. The Significance of the Frontier in American History

    Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American canon. That is a testament to Turner's powers of creative synthesis; in a few short pages, he succeeded in redefining the way in which whole generations of Americans understood the manner in which their country was shaped, and their own character ...

  9. Frontier Democracy: The Turner Thesis Revisited

    History," in Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1893 (Wash-ington, D.C. 1894), 197-228. For a recent reevaluation of Turner, see William ... become nearly half urban by the time he wrote his frontier essay, and by 1920, when Turner published a book of essays reprinting his much acclaimed frontier piece, a majority ...

  10. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Frontier in American History, by

    The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Frontier in American History, by Frederick Jackson Turner ... July 12, 1893. It first appeared in the Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, December 14, 1893, with the following note: ... In his essay on "Frontiers Well-Defended" (1707) Mather assures the pioneers that they "dwell in a ...

  11. 17.9: The West as History- the Turner Thesis

    In 1893, the American Historical Association met during that year's World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The young Wisconsin historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented his "frontier thesis," one of the most influential theories of American history, in his essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History ...

  12. The Significance of the Frontier in American History

    "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" was written by Frederick Jackson Turner, delivered as a conference paper at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in 1893 ...

  13. Primary Source: Frederick Jackson Turner, "Significance of the Frontier

    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 might follow "the closing of the frontier."

  14. How the Myth of the American Frontier Got Its Start

    On the evening of July 12, 1893, in the hall of a massive new Beaux-Arts building that would soon house the Art Institute of Chicago, a young professor named Frederick Jackson Turner rose to ...

  15. An Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's The Significance of the

    Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American canon. That is a testament to Turner's powers of creative synthesis; in a few short pages, he succeeded in redefining the way in which whole generations of Americans understood the manner in which their ...

  16. Introduction: The significance of the frontier in an age of

    For US scholars, the very word frontier is irrevocably linked to the legacy of historian Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), who, in his 1893 essay "The Significance of The Frontier in American History," cast the frontier as both a moving line of settlement and the well-spring of American individualism and democracy.

  17. Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American

    Frederick Jackson Turner was an American historian based at the University of Wisconsin until 1910, and then Harvard University. Turner is best known for his "Frontier Thesis," an idea put forth in the essay excerpted. This essay was presented to a special meeting of the American Historical Association during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

  18. The West as History: The Turner Thesis

    In 1893, the American Historical Association met during that year's World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The young Wisconsin historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented his "frontier thesis," one of the most influential theories of American history, in his essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."

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    The History of Moscow City. Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia as well as the. It is also the 4th largest city in the world, and is the first in size among all European cities. Moscow was founded in 1147 by Yuri Dolgoruki, a prince of the region. The town lay on important land and water trade routes, and it grew and prospered.