Frederick Jackson Turner

* 1born Nov 14, 1861, Portage, Wis, US died March 14, 1932, San Marino, Calif US historian He taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard University Deeply influenced by his Wisconsin childhood, Turner rejected the doctrine that US institutions could be traced mainly to European origins, and he demonstrated his theories in a series of essays In The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893) he asserted that the American character had been shaped by frontier life and the end of the frontier era Later he focused on sectionalism as a force in US development His essays were collected in The Frontier in American History (1920) and Significance of Sections in American History (1932, Pulitzer Prize)
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