Jackson Turner Thesis

Fredrick Jackson Turner was born in Portage, Wisconsin on November 14, 1861. He was the oldest of three children. Their family was able to map out their family history back as far as the English Puritans from the seventeenth century. Turner’s interest in history began at an early age because his father was a local historian by avocation and a journalist by trade. In 1884, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Masters of Arts in History, then went on to attended John Hopkins University where he received his PhD in history in 1889. From 1889 – 1910 Turner became a scholar and teacher for the University of Wisconsin, and then he joined the team of scholars at Harvard where he retired from in1924. However, his passion for research…show more content…
Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History,"
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