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Frederick Turner (born 1943) is an English–American poet affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism. He is the author of three full-length science fiction epic poems, The New World, Genesis and Apocalypse; several books of his poetry and literary translations; and a number of other works. He has been called "a major poet of ...
Frederick W. Turner (sometimes Frederick Turner), born in Chicago in 1937, [1] is an American writer of history, including an acclaimed biography of the naturalist John Muir, and historical novels. He has published a revised and annotated edition of Geronimo 's 1906 autobiography.
Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was an American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1910, and then Harvard University.
Frederick Turner (Jesuit) (1910–2001), British priest, archivist and librarian; Frederick Turner (poet) (born 1943), American poet; Frederick W. Turner (born 1937), American author, editor of Geronimo's autobiography, Redemption, The Go-Between; Fred Turner (author), professor of communication at Stanford University and author
The Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner's Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations.
Jackson Turner Main (1917–2003) was an American professor, historian and author who researched and wrote about the colonial American social order before, during and after the American Revolution. He was the grandson of Frederick Jackson Turner, author of the influential Frontier Thesis. Main worked most of his adult life as a professor and ...
Frederick Jackson Turner "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" is a seminal essay by the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner which advanced the Frontier thesis of American history. Turner's thesis had a significant impact on how people in the late 19th and early 20th centuries understood American identity, character ...
In the United States, the concept of the frontier first became significant in 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner used the term as a model for understanding American culture in his essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", read before the American Historical Association in Chicago during the World's Columbian Exhibition (Chicago World's Fair).