Frontier

and sectional tensions as plans for the development of these new states were put forward. With the announcement of the Monroe Doctrine, President Monroe modified the definition of “frontier” and the concept of “Manifest Destiny” emphasized America’s sense of its mission in the world. By 1844, the politics of frontier expansion caused a war with Mexico which…

Latin America is a debatable subject in the field of humanities, especially in the field history. The most widespread approaches of this history are that of violence, war, oppression, possession of territories, and foundation of new colonies. In Frontier of Possessions, Tamar Herzog, a historian, professor of Latin American presents an account of the conquest from a different perspective, one that proposes that the acquisition of the territory of the New World by Spain and Portugal was a result…

and Lyndon B. Johnson tried to create administrations to try to help upcoming society. John F. Kennedy’s administration was called the “New Frontier”, he announced that it would help solve problems in America, such as peace and war, ignorance and prejudice and poverty and surplus. There were a few domestic issues that played a role in shaping the “New Frontier”, such as health care for elders and to help with educating young Americans. Kennedy wanted to pass a huge tax cut that was said to…

organization on free lands. The frontier provides ample land for the expansion of American civilization, even before true “Americans” settled on the continent of North America. In comparison, the city was an afterthought. Before any city could be founded, a settlement must be established on a frontier of sorts. Many fully colonized in the 19th century shows prevalence of cities in multiple civilization, showing how unexclusive the city was in this particular time. As such, the frontier is a…

Writing out (or in) Material Culture from the Past: Crossdressing and the Myth of the Frontier In America’s “frontier” history, crossdressing is rarely the focus of analysis. As a place that was yet to be conquered and “modernized,” it was affiliated with heterosexual, white manliness. In Peter Boag’s Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past, however, he specifically focuses on the acts of crossdressing in the form of female-to-male, male-to-female, and even more abstractly, non-Anglo-to-Anglo. In…

The Theta Upsilon chapter of Phi Theta Kappa has chosen the topic “Quests for Human Expression” as our focus for the Honors in Action theme “Frontiers and the Spirit of Exploration.” The right to freedom of expression, equality and human rights is a crucial key to democracy, and is safeguarded by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the United…

“The First Frontier” is perfect for a student of Early American History, but whatever reader that yields any slight interest in American history; can pick it up and experience a very real picture of what it was like to live than die in the first frontier. When a plethora of books are a continuous tale, author Scott Weidensaul's “The First Frontier” tells the tales of many. One of the main appeals of “The First Frontier” is that it doesn't focus on just the European view of early exploration…

The frontier is like a border that changes the area as it sweeps across. Not only does it change the people’s behavior in the land, but it also alters the way people think. They adapt to new ways that make life different. This frontier line that changes the lives of people is, what I see to be, a method of rapid and effective Americanization. My definition of Americanization…

The novel The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains was written by Glenda Riley. Riley was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1938 and gained her Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1968. After she received her Ph.D. she went on to acquire he first teaching position at Northern Iowa University, where she held this position for 21 years. She also founded the University of Northern Iowa’s Women’s Studies Program. This wide range of knowledge on this particular subject,…

The expansion of the western frontier occurred in the period between 1777 and 1850. During the expansion of the western frontier the Native Americans were affected highly throughout the entire process. The Americans did not want to show sympathy on what was believed to help them improve their expansion in social, political, cultural, and economically. The same goes on in today’s society of Chicago, Illinois. Nobody thinks to compare our modern day society to society in the late 1700’s through…