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 ...

The frontier line is ending, and therefore the first chapter of American history has come to a close ... What's happening to us? What are we becoming? BEN WATTENBERG: Where now could the seed ...

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.

From towering grizzlies that stalked the frontier to venomous rattlesnakes feared by settlers, these five animals earned ...

May 6, 1782 — While the day Lexington was founded may have happened in 1775, it was a long road from the city being a stop on the way to the frontier to where Lexington ... to Lexington’s 250-year ...

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 ...