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Turner's frontier thesis had begun to lose some of its potency as early as the late 1940s, which saw the publication of Earl Pomeroy's The Territories and the United States, 1861-1890: Studies in Colonial Administration (1947). Considered the father...
On 12 July 1893, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, noted historian Frederick Jackson Turner delivered an address to a meeting of the American Historical Association in which he suggested thatto the
frontier the American...
If there is a better example of modern mythmaking than the settlement of the American frontier, such does not immediately come to mind. We glimpsed a tiny bit of this mythmaking in our series on the western (see our posts of 25-29 June 2009). This...
One of the most unusual bindings one is likely to encounter among books purchased at yard sales, garage sales, friends-of-the-library book sales and the like is papier mâché. Somewhat similar to the "paper shreds and paste" used by school children...
It’s all rather cold and unromantic. There was no feeling of excitement
as I opened the front cover for the first time (there was no front
cover), nowhere to indulge the jealous desire to pen my name onto the
first page, to take possession of the...
This blog is very well researched and presented. There are many resources and links. Each individual blog if educational and written in a positive, friendly manner. Very impressive beginning!
Arguably the Internet's most comprehensive set of resources for anyone who owns, or wants to own, a private or home library: 11 Glossaries, 26 Selected Bibliographic Resources, 43 links to State Centers for the Book, 49 relevant blogs, 56 relevant podcasts & webcasts, 83 relevant organizations, not to mention the usual daily post & comments!
