Area of Expertise
Frederick Jackson-Turner's area of expertise.
What is American history?
The subject Turner earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in.
What is history?
The name of Turner's big idea.
What is the Frontier Thesis?
The number of books Fredrick Jackson-Turner published in his lifetime.
What is one?
The idea of the Frontier Thesis.
What is the idea that American culture and democracy has been shaped to a large degree by the American experience on the frontier?
Fredrick Jackson-Turner's profession.
What is a history professor?
The universities Fredrick Jackson-Turner taught at.
What is the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University?
What Turner thought life on the American frontier shaped.
What are American democracy, culture, values, and character?
Turner's most important publication (published in 1893 at a meeting of the American Historical Association at the World’s Fair in Chicago).
What is an essay titled “The Significance of the Frontier in American History?"
The year Fredrick Jackson-Turner delivered his Frontier Thesis to a group of historians in Chicago.
What is 1893?
Turner's specialities.
What is analyzing American history and culture, especially that of the American West?
Turner's degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
What is a bachelors degree and a master’s degree?
What Frederick Jackson-Turner pointed out that all historical analysis of the past influences.
What are the concerns and agenda of the present?
The name of the only book he published during his lifetime.
What is "The Rise of the New West?"
The reason early Americans had different characteristics and values than Europeans.
What are social and economic opportunities which came from their relatively free access to land in the West?
The award he was posthumously given in 1933.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
The years he taught in.
What is from 1889 to 1924?
The outcome of Turner's big idea.
What is controversy and debate regarding our understanding of the origins of American democracy and culture as well as influencing how historians explain the origins of other countries’ characteristics?
The year he published a collection of essays titled "The Frontier in American History."
What is 1920?
What self-reliance, mobility, and inventiveness on the frontier led to.
What is an American culture that values individualism, restlessness, and materialism?
Turner's other talent.
What is public speaking?
The years Fredrick Jackson-Turner earned all his degrees in.
What is his bachelor’s degree in 1884, master’s degree in 1888, and Ph.D. in 1890?
Fredrick Jackson-Turner's lesser known thesis topic.
What is American sectionalism?
The names of his two books that were published after his death.
What are "The Significance of Sections in American History (1932)" and "The United States 1830-1850: The Nation and Its Sections (1935)?"
What the relationship between western settlers and the newly formed government fostered in America.
What is nationalism?