One-hundred years ago, an obscure, young University of Wisconsin professor named Frederick Jackson Turner rose in an auditorium at Chicago’s new Art Institute to deliver a scholarly paper. He was ...

QUESTION: Talk about the Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier. WILLIAM CRONON: Frederick Jackson Turner's significance to the frontier in American history is that his is arguably the ...

A 19th-century theory suggesting a central role for the Western frontier in shaping a distinctively American way of life is getting fresh support from a trio of Boston University economists armed with ...

Introduction: the significance of the frontier myth in American history -- pt. 1. The mythology of progressivism, 1880-1902 -- The winning of the West: Theodore Roosevelt's frontier thesis, 1880-1900 ...