Papers on Frederick Jackson Turner, 1952-1953.

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Papers on Frederick Jackson Turner, 1952-1953.

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Research correspondence and an article by Williamson on the circumstances surrounding the inclusion of F. J. Turner's paper, "The significance of the frontier in American history", at the 1893 meeting of the American Historical Association, containing evidence of Turner's modesty and interest in his students.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932

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Frederick Jackson Turner, professor and historian, became a leading scholar after he published, in 1893, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," his revolutionary thesis that American society owed its distincitve characteristics to experience with an undeveloped frontier. He was born on November 14, 1861 in Portage, Wisconsin, the son of Andrew Jackson Turner, a journalist and politician. His scholary work was first carried on at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he t...

Williamson, W. L. (William Landram), 1920- .

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