The American frontier is sharply distinguished from the European frontier—a fortified
boundary line running through dense populations. The most significant thing about the …

A FTER the bicentennial celebrations of recent years, we are approaching a centennial that
deserves notice-the hundredth anniversary, in I993, of Frederick Jackson Turner's …

the framework ot• intellectual concepts, some ot• which have been consciously applied by
historians, while others have shaped their work more or less indirecfiy through the influence …

Written in 1893, this enormously influential survey revised previous interpretations of US
history with its exploration of frontier life's impact on a transplanted civilization. Author …

EVERY frontier has two sides. Its movement forward or backward is the consequence of two
sets of forces. To understand fully why one side advances, we must know something of why …

The vastness of the American West is apparent to anyone who travels through it, but what
may not be immediately obvious is the extent to which the landscape has been shaped by …

THE transformations through which the United States is passing in our own day are so
profound, so far-reaching, that it is hardly an exaggeration to say that we are witnessing the …