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Name: Frederick Jackson Turner
Birth Date: November 14, 1861
Death Date: March 4, 1932
Place of Birth: Portage, Wisconsin, United States
Place of Death: Pasadena, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: historian, writer

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Biography of Frederick Jackson Turner
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American historian Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) is regarded as one of the greatest writers of United States history. Several of his concepts caused a virtual rewriting of American history in the early 20th century. Frederick Jackson Turner was...
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Biography of Frederick Jackson Turner
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Frederick Jackson Turner was one of the most influential American western writers of the nineteenth century, and his name has become synonymous with the western frontier. While Owen Wister, Frederic Remington, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles...
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Biography of Frederick Jackson Turner
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Frederick Jackson Turner is best known as the father of the "Frontier (or Turner) Thesis," but he also generated a "Sectional Thesis" which had a considerable impact on historians and historiography. In addition, although little-remembered for working...


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Frederick Jackson Turner Information
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Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14 1932) is widely regarded, along with Charles A. Beard, as one of the two most influential American historians of the early 20th century. He is best known for The Significance of the Frontier in...


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History: Review of New Books
Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down.(Review)
03/22/1999: 514 words, approx. 2 pages
Bogue, Allan G. Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 557 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3039-3 Publication Date: April 1998 Frederick Jackson Turner has found his Boswell in Allan G. Bogue, whose erudite, admiring, yet analytic and critical...
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Montana; The Magazine of Western History
Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down
04/01/2000: 792 words, approx. 3 pages
FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER Strange Roads Going Down Allan G. Bogue University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1998. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. xviii + 557 pp. $34.95. When he went east in 1888 to study history at Johns Hopkins University, young...
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The New York Observer
Politics Without Politics: Seeing History From the Center
6/18/2006: 1,761 words, approx. 6 pages
Richard Hofstadter spent most his adult life in the “Upper West Side Kibbutz,” an area of Morningside Heights bounded by Claremont Avenue, Riverside Drive and Columbia’s Hamilton Hall. Of the eminences who inhabited this neighborhood in the 1950’s—Daniel Bell, Peter Gay, Irving Kristol, Lionel Trilling—Hofstadter...
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The New York Observer
Politics Without Politics: Seeing History From the Center
6/18/2006: 1,761 words, approx. 6 pages
Richard Hofstadter spent most his adult life in the “Upper West Side Kibbutz,” an area of Morningside Heights bounded by Claremont Avenue, Riverside Drive and Columbia’s Hamilton Hall. Of the eminences who inhabited this neighborhood in the 1950’s—Daniel Bell, Peter Gay, Irving Kristol, Lionel Trilling—Hofstadter...
 


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