“The frontier promoted the formation of a composite nationality for the American people,” he told the audience. “In the crucible of the frontier, the immigrants were Americanized, liberated ...

Across the gallery, each piece offers a different lens on movement, memory and reinvention, anchoring big ideas in the ...

In the mid-19th century, life along the northern Mexican frontier was shaped not only by the landscape and climate but also ...

QUESTION: Talk about the Frederick Jackson Turner and the American Frontier. WILLIAM CRONON: Frederick Jackson Turner's significance to the frontier in American history is that his is arguably the ...

That is one of the main points of one of the classic texts on the subject, Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Frontier in American History," published in 1920. Turner basically says the dynamic I ...

For a new generation of Americans, this is as close as they would ever come to the legendary experience of the American frontier. While Buffalo Bill put tales of the heroic West on parade ...

Some say it already has ended. But the underlying problems of the American economy will not come to an end with the next upturn in the business cycle, unless American industry undertakes some ...

Examines the truth behind the legends and folklore of the American frontier, using dramatic re-enactments and interviews with experts. By the end of the 18th century, former British colonies ...