WILLIAM CRONON: Frederick Jackson Turner's significance to the frontier in American history is that his is arguably the most influential essay that an American historian has ever written.

With this, Frederick Jackson Turner began his essay “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” based on a paper he gave at a meeting of the American Historical Association in ...

Frederick Jackson Turner presented his thesis, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." He began by quoting from the Census of 1890: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a ...

That is one of the main points of one of the classic texts on the subject, Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Frontier in American History," published in 1920. Turner basically says the dynamic I ...