Hal Turner

In the document, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, by Frederick J. Turner, examines the American Frontier and all of his theories. This frontier is “the meeting point between savagery and civilization” (200). The cruel and fierce part of this world meeting the courteous and humanized kind. It is the point in which these opposing traits meet. This frontier is a potent method to use for Americanization. The best way to learn American history is to study the American frontier…

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Jackson Turner, and the average historian. This interview is geared towards exploiting the hidden connotations of Turner’s article. Purpose of the interview: The purpose of the interview is for me and the audience to gain a better understanding of Turner’s article. It is to question why he believes what he believes. I, as an interviewer, seek to gain a better sense of Turner’s thoughts to clearly convey his message to the audience and myself. Introduction: Hello Mr. Frederick Jackson Turner!…

The United States during the 1890s heralded a dramatic break between America’s past and future. It was a decade of extreme contradiction. The unmatched cultural advancement was accompanied by intense economic unrest. While this decade saw the rise of cities, advanced technology, and rollercoasters, it also saw economic depressions, the invention of detection, and the birth of America’s serial killer. The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 highlights the contradictions of United States culture,…

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.” Yet, Turner’s essay remains the classic expression of the “frontier thesis.” Turner was mostly ignored at the time but eventually Turner's lectures gained such wide distribution and influence that a contemporary scholar has called it "the single…

History” by Frederick Jackson Turner, written in 1893 he expounds strongly the importance of the frontier. In his thesis, he outlines that the frontier shaped and molded men into the embodiments of “Americanism”. These were people in a new world that Turner referred to as Americans that receive great traits all due to the encounter of the frontier. This statement made by Turner has been supported by several historians and to this day still holds true. Many people like Turner argue that the…

In 1893, a man by the name of Frederick Jackson Turner created a thesis that tried to envelop the idea of the American Frontier. Turner’s thesis became wildly popular as it told of an American history that had not yet been researched or even known. Through Turner’s thesis, the American Frontier became the beginning and hope of a new period in American history. However, although Turner’s thesis was able to grasp the American Frontier, it was incapable of fully capturing the core essence of the…

Before Frederick Turner’s essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, the section begins with how influential the essay is and a bit of history about it. It continues by commenting how Turner may not be looked at as much of a historian anymore, but his work it still important. The rest of the passage is the essay. It starts with how different the European Frontier was from the American one, it is a vast open expanse where few people live, and Indian tribes dot the landscape.…

In 1893, Historian Frederick Jackson Turner expressed his feeling on the frontier thesis. He explained that the frontier influenced the American culture by promoting individualistic democracy. “The frontier,” he asserted, "is the line of most rapid Americanization." He also expressed that expansion to the American West changed people’s view of their own culture. The western frontier, however, did not appear to be what it seemed like. Turner described in his frontier thesis that the West was a…

the trees!” These words of William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey, suggests that he was looking at the Abbey from a distance. His view was of the chimney billowing houses, the trees that settled next to it, and the farmlands that surrounded it. J.M.W. Turner illustrated the architecture as if he were standing in between the columns of the abbey itself. In it lay the crumbling ruins wrapped in vines, tourists memorized by its…