Letters of Frederick Jackson Turner, 1923.

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Letters of Frederick Jackson Turner, 1923.

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The three items include one letter by Frederick Jackson Turner to Richard S. Emmet, Herbert Hoover's secretary, thanking Hoover for a signed copy of his book American individualism and inquiring whether or not Hoover received a copy of Frontier in American history that Turner had sent to him. The other two letters are by Emmet to Turner. Emmet states that Hoover "not only received a copy of your 'Frontier in American History' but read it with very deep interest."

3 letters, photocopies.

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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...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Emmet, Richard S.

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