Frederick Jackson Turner

LAMB: You mentioned when we started about the frontier and you start off by writing about a man named Frederick Jackson Turner, which is right down here.

The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s 1996

I am not talking about "revisionism" but unifying conceptual schemes, the sort of mental framework that Frederick Jackson Turner created in his argument for the importance of the frontier to our history or that Bernard Bailyn established in his studies of the American Revolution's ideological origins.

Discovering America Anew Charles C. Mann 2011

At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair the historian Frederick Jackson Turner declared that the western frontier was the key element in America's unique form of democracy.

Jonathan D. Moreno: America's Problem With "Progress" Jonathan D. Moreno 2012

Frederick Jackson Turner sought to prohibit football at the University of Wisconsin.

Unnecessary Roughness Fred Barnes 2011

Later, historian Frederick Jackson Turner set forth the thesis that America's uniqueness stems from its spirit developed on the Western frontier.

American Exceptionalism--And An 'Exceptional' President 2010

That state-of-nature liberalism was consecrated for Americans by Frederick Jackson Turner in his frontier thesis, which substituted middle-distance history for national myth — and vice versa.

The Visitor 2010

In thrall of American progressivism, the 28th president enlisted the most celebrated minds of the era -- Walter Lippman, Thorstein Veblen and Frederick Jackson Turner, among others -- to craft a global constitution that would usher in a "scientific peace" to follow the Great War.

Review of Peter Beinart's 'The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris' Carlos Lozada 2010

Later, historian Frederick Jackson Turner set forth the thesis that America's uniqueness stems from its spirit developed on the Western frontier.

American Exceptionalism--And An 'Exceptional' President 2010

The historian Frederick Jackson Turner developed the notion that it was the frontier that forged the unique American character.

Caryl Rivers: The Last Real American White Man Is a Woman 2009

Frederick Jackson Turner was wrong; the American frontier will never close, not as long as there are people like my father who were and are willing to cross deserts, stuff themselves into cars, float across water -- just for the chance to establish themselves in this country and thrive.

My Dad, the illegal immigrant 2008