The Frontier Lab studied the Democratic candidate s Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during the 2012 campaign, finding that Obama’s strengths included affirming adherents’ “self-esteem ...

Accordingly, the Frontier Thesis lived on long after his death, even as a new generation of academics continue to debunk many of its assertions. It infused Hollywood westerns and postwar ...

Israel’s Frontier Thesis. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to ...

One-hundred years ago, an obscure, young University of Wisconsin professor named Frederick Jackson Turner rose in an auditorium at Chicago’s new Art Institute to deliver a scholarly paper. He… ...

Turner’s “frontier thesis,” taught in schools, written into political oratory and endlessly represented in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and motion pictures and dime novels, ...

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That year, the Smithsonian American Art Museum presented “The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the American Frontier, 1820-1920.” In the exhibition, the curators challenged both the ...

“The Last Frontier,” emblazoned across every Alaska license plate, evidences a cultural narrative foundational to Alaskan identity. One hundred and fifty years ago, the United States acquired ...

A 19th-century theory suggesting a central role for the Western frontier in shaping a distinctively American way of life is getting fresh support from a trio of Boston University economists armed ...

In the late 19th century, Frederick Jackson Turner lit up the historical world with his frontier thesis of American history. He asserted that American democracy owed its distinctiveness to the ...

Historian Frederick Jackson Turner cemented the frontier as deeply American when, in his famous “Frontier Thesis” of 1893, he argued that American democracy is a product of the frontier.

In “The End of the Myth” Greg Grandin explores our love of the boundless West as it evolved over the 19th century and into the 20th — and why it was a mirage.