A Critique of Turner's "Frontier Thesis": Its Rewriting of the American Past and the Global Present

In-depth study of the Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner, and how it has related to American foreign policy - and self-perceptions of Americanness

“American Progress”, by John Gast, 1872

An essay originally written for a Political Geography university course, 13 October 2014….

The frontier thesis proposed by the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner, represents his explanation of the historical process that went into American development. He placed great significance in the U.S. Census of 1890…