Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner
Subtitle: The Significance of the Frontier in American History and Other Essays
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P)
Published: October 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780805042443
Subjects: American history; United States - General; History - General History; History: American; USA; United States - 19th Century/Old West
First sentence: It has been more than a century since Frederick Jackson Turner first read his paper "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" before an audience of some two hundred historians assembled in Chicago for the "World's Columbian Exposition," the celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of Europeans' discovery of the Americas.