Frontiers: A Short History of the American West. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. ... Leong, Karen J. “Still Walking, Still Brave: Mapping Gender, Race, and Power in U.S. Western History.” Pacific Historical Review 79, no.
This hugely influential work marked a turning point in US history and culture, arguing that the nation’s expansion into the Great West was directly linked to its unique spirit: a rugged individualism forged at the juncture between ...
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Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital forces that call these organs into life and shape them to meet changing conditions.
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The Significance of the Frontier in American History is a classic essay about the importance of the frontier.
Turner's much-anthologized 1893 essay argues that the vast western frontier shaped the modern American character--and the course of US history.
-The Significance of the Frontier in American History- "In the settlement of America we have to observe how European life entered the continent, and how America modified and developed that life and reacted on Europe.