Library of Congress The resulting essay, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” offered a ... exceptionalism—the notion that the U.S. follows a path soaring above those ...

His thesis "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" mournfully proclaimed ... of the Spanish-American War and the birth of U.S. imperialism, Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis is ...

They are “eating us out of house and home,” says Laura ... But with the shrinking of the frontier, the emerging view is that even wild horses live at odds with their environment.

Lee was completing her Ph.D. in early American history at West Virginia University at the time ... Starting our farm was also ...

But, for us to embrace that way of thinking is to do great violence to Indian peoples and Indian history in this country. One of the challenges of doing Western history, or frontier history ...