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    Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was an American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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  • Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner's Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement...
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  • The Frederick Jackson Turner Award is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history. It was...
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    essay by the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner which advanced the Frontier thesis of American history. Turner's thesis had a significant impact...
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    concept of the frontier first became significant in 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner used the term as a model for understanding American culture in...
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  • player Frederick Harding Turner (1888–1915), Scottish rugby player Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), American historian Frederick Turner (Jesuit)...
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    zone of contact at the edge of a line of settlement. Theorist Frederick Jackson Turner went deeper, arguing that the frontier was the scene of a defining...
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  • Mythographies: Savagery and Civilization in Frederick Jackson Turner and John Ford” that the language Turner uses to describe this battle between the wilderness...
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  • during and after the American Revolution. He was the grandson of Frederick Jackson Turner, author of the influential Frontier Thesis. Main worked most of...
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    currently on the faculty of Yale University. In 2007 he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for his first major book, Violence Over the Land: Indians...
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    by the encounter. That is what Frederick Jackson Turner called "the significance of the frontier." For example, Turner argued in 1893, one change was...
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    chips of brass thrown into the melting pot. In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner also used the metaphor of immigrants melting into one American...
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    Harvard University as a professor of history in 1924, succeeded Frederick Jackson Turner and taught at Harvard until 1954. Harvard's Schlesinger Library...
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  • 19th century. In 1893, as part of his Frontier Thesis, historian Frederick Jackson Turner asserted that the United States frontier was demographically "closed"...
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    ISBN 978-1137338549. Turner, Frederick Jackson (1920). "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". The Frontier in American History. p. 293. Turner, The Frontier...
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    Shrinking". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved February 23, 2012. Turner, Frederick Jackson (1920). "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"...
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    Alan Turner Alfred Turner Alex Turner Andrew Turner Ann Turner Anna Turner Anne Turner Benjamin Turner Brad Turner Brian Turner Charles Turner Chris...
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    President, Chief Justice Ida Tarbell, journalist Frederick Winslow Taylor, efficiency expert Frederick Jackson Turner, historian Mary van Kleeck, social scientist...
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    ideology. Frederick Jackson Turner and a succession of western historians depicted the Populists as responding to the closure of the frontier. Turner wrote:...
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    American culture, commerce, trade, and industry sectors. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner labeled it "typically American." The Northeast Corridor and Interstate...
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    Historical Association. Phillips was especially influenced by Frederick Jackson Turner who invited Phillips to the University of Wisconsin where Phillips...
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    Show just outside the edge of the exposition. Nearby, historian Frederick Jackson Turner gave academic lectures reflecting on the end of the frontier which...
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    frontier", as described by renowned American Western historian Frederick Jackson Turner. Dakota author Gabrielle Wynde Tateyuskanskan explores prairie...
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  • Christian University. He won the Organization of American Historians's Frederick Jackson Turner Award in 2017 for Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic...
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    Markers in Portage Fort Winnebago Surgeon's Quarters Historic Site Frederick Jackson Turner Jacques Marquette Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Ketchum's...
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  • Turner School District. The school was named after frontiersman Frederick Jackson Turner. It has 470 students in grades 9 through 12. The school's athletic...
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  • University to study under Frederick Jackson Turner. Upon Turner's retirement in 1924, Merk took up his position with Turner's support. He taught at Harvard...
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    Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2009 Huntington Library, 2006 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians for Impossible Subjects:...
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    New Haven, Connecticut) is an environmental historian and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental...
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    studying history. Remaining for graduate work, Becker studied under Frederick Jackson Turner, who became his doctoral adviser there. Becker received his Ph...
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