American historian Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) is regarded as one of the greatest writers of United States history. Several of his concepts caused a virtual rewriting of American history in t...
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Frederick Jackson Turner is best known as the father of the "Frontier (or Turner) Thesis," but he also generated a "Sectional Thesis" which had a considerable impact on historians and historiography....
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Frederick Jackson Turner was one of the most influential American western writers of the nineteenth century, and his name has become synonymous with the western frontier. While Owen Wister, Frederic R...
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