Homer C. Hockett Papers, ca. 1902-1903.

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Homer C. Hockett Papers, ca. 1902-1903.

The collection includes course notes for Frederick Jackson Turner's History of the American West course. Homer Carey Hockett was a graduate assistant to Turner at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, ca. 1902-1903. Hockett later was a faculty member at Ohio State University.

1.2 linear ft. (3 document boxes)

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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...

University of Wisconsin--Madison

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Hockett, Homer C. (Homer Carey), 1875-

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