Frederick Jackson Turner Archives

Authors: Frederick Jackson Turner

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Source: Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” address to the American Historical Association, in The Frontier in American History(New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920),

1917–1929

The Significance of History

The conceptions of history have been almost as numerous as the men who have written history. To Augustine Birrel history is a pageant; it is for the purpose of satisfying