“Frederick Jackson Turner” by Carl Becker. John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. Extracted from “American Masters of Social Science” edited by Howard W. Odum. Henry Holt and Company 1927.
Note: This book is 'read as written'. It was published in 1827. It is in the public domain.
Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian during the early twentieth century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1910, and then at Harvard University. He was known primarily for his frontier thesis. He trained many PhDs who went on to become well-known historians. He promoted interdisciplinary and quantitative methods, often with an emphasis on the Midwestern United States.
Turner's essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" included ideas that formed the frontier thesis. Turner's sectionalism essays are collected in “The Significance of Sections in American History”, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1933.
