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Frederick Jackson Turner
An American historian, 1861 to 1932, known for his frontier thesis, which argued that the frontier shaped American democracy and character.
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Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous essay on the American frontier at a conference in 1893.
Historians still debate the strengths and weaknesses of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis today.
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Turner's frontier thesis was hugely influential in American historical scholarship but has since been challenged and revised by later historians.
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