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Ethnicity and American social theory: toward critical pluralism

Ethnicity and American social theory: toward critical pluralism

Gerard A. Postiglione

Some excellent biographical sources on Frederick Jackson Turner include Wilbur R. Jacobs, The Historical World of Frederick Jackson Turner, London: Yale, 1968; JamesD. Bennett, Frederick Jackson Turner, Boston: Tyayne, 1975; and Filmur ...
Frederick Jackson Turner: Wisconsin’s Historian of the Frontier

Frederick Jackson Turner: Wisconsin’s Historian of the Frontier

Martin Ridge

INTRODUCTION *See Martin Ridge, "A More Jealous Mistress: Frederick Jackson Turner as Book Reviewer,” in the Pacific Historical Review, 55:49–63 ( February, 1986). *Vernon E. Mattson and William E. Marion, Frederick Jackson Turner: A ...
Shaping the American Character: The Significance of the ...

Shaping the American Character: The Significance of the ...

Frederick Jackson Turner

More than a hundred years after it was first articulated, Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis" remains one of the key interpretations of American history.
Reuben Gold Thwaites; A Memorial Address

Reuben Gold Thwaites; A Memorial Address

Frederick Jackson Turner

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their ...

Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their ...

Patricia Ann Turner

"Exploring white American popular culture of the past century and a half, Turner details subtle and not-so-subtle negative tropes and images of black people, from Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima to jokes about Michael Jackson and Jesse Jackson.
American Dreams: Dialogues in U.S. Studies

American Dreams: Dialogues in U.S. Studies

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(Frederick Jackson Turner The Frontier in American History 213) As Harold Simonson observes, the old “American Dream”, with its emphasis upon rugged individualism, is quite distinct from the capitalistic consumerism and conformity which ...
The Significance of the Frontier in American History

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Frederick Jackson Turner

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 ...
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools of the ...

Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools of the ...

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DANIEL GURNEY Town: (In collaboration with Frederick Warren Turner.) “Pattern -making.” John Wiley & Sons. New York. September, 1914. 114 pages. Illustrated . FREDERICK WARREN TURNER: (In collaboration with Daniel Gurney Town.) ...
Sport and American Society: Exceptionalism, Insularity, ...

Sport and American Society: Exceptionalism, Insularity, ...

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... Deal (Lawrence,KS: University ofKansas Press,1993); RichardSlotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The Myth ofthe Frontier in TwentiethCentury America(New York: Atheneum, 1992); JamesD. Bennett, Frederick Jackson Turner (Boston, MA: Twayne, ...
Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, ...

Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, ...

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PETER. C.ROLLINS. and. JOHN. E. O'CONNOR. American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West is the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos. Throughout the twentieth ...
Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture

Long Black Song: Essays in Black American Literature and Culture

Houston A. Baker

Harold Simonson holds that it was only at the end of the nineteenth century ( when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the close of the frontier) that Americans en masse began to think and prophesy in ominous eschatological terms.11 ...
Documents of the School Committee of the City of Boston

Documents of the School Committee of the City of Boston

Boston (Mass.). School Committee

DANIEL GURNET TOWN: (In collaboration with Frederick Warren Turner.) " Pattern-making." John Wiley & Sons. New York. September, 1914. 114 pages. Illustrated. FREDERICK WARREN TURNER: (In collaboration with Daniel Gurney Town.) ...
Ignited

Ignited

Corrine Jackson

It's time to end this war once and for all, as Protectors and Healers alike hurtle towards a final, violent confrontation that not everyone will survive. Praise for Corrine Jackson's Touched "A taut page-turner.
The Stanford Quad

The Stanford Quad

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NTOSH JAMES DUILLARD PATTERSON GEORGE FRANKLIN SHANER 1908 HOWARD DEARBORN AINS WORTH FREDERICK RODGERS LANAGAN AMOS NEWTON COLE CLAUDIUS RAYMOND FREDERICK WARREN TURNER ...
A Fortune's Children's Christmas: Angel Baby\A Home for ...

A Fortune's Children's Christmas: Angel Baby\A Home for ...

Lisa Jackson

Angel Baby\A Home for Christmas\The Christmas Child Lisa Jackson, Barbara Boswell, Linda Turner. course.'' She shot Chase a glance and felt her cheeks wash with hot color. ''Naive on my part. Eventually we lost sight of each other, and he ...
New Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords: On Appeals ...

New Reports of Cases Heard in the House of Lords: On Appeals ...

Richard Bligh

On the 7th day of July 1829, the Respondent George Jackson, the Respondents Thomas Faulkner Middleton, and Caroline Erskine, his late wife, and the infant Respondents George Jackson Jackson, John Anderson Jackson, Ann Jackson ...
Martin Family Record, from 1760 to 1963

Martin Family Record, from 1760 to 1963

Walter S. Martin

1 H. Jack Justin Turner f Ph.D. 2G. A. J. (Jack) Turner married Evelyn Preston. 1H . Carolyn Turner, born 1940 2H. A. J. Turner, Jr., born 1941. 4r. Kate Turner married Alex Spencer. 1G. Ralph Spencer married Jean Horner of Eastern, Kentucky.
Genealogical History of Black Families of Orange County, New ...

Genealogical History of Black Families of Orange County, New ...

Robert W. Brennan

The son of the late Booker and Lavertia Jackson, He was bom May 5, 1941, in Batesville, Miss. ... and Isiah I=w1
Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society

Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society

Rhode Island Historical Society

SKETCH OF DR. PETER TURNER. [BY BR. HENRY C. TURNER.] Doctor Peter Turner, of East Greenwich, R. I., was the fourth and youngest son of Doctor William Turner, of Newark, New Jersey, whose father was Captain William Turner , ...
Pattern-Making - Scholar's Choice Edition

Pattern-Making - Scholar's Choice Edition

Frederick Warren Turner

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland.

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