Which brings us to our Frontier Lab Thesis: The co-existers are winning, and those holding to “ E pluribus unum ” are in retreat.

Everett Collection But as a researcher, Turner himself turned away from the Frontier Thesis in the years after the 1890s. He never wrote it down in book form or even in academic articles.

New economic research examines Frederick Jackson Turner’s famous 1893 thesis on link between frontier life and American culture By Ben Leubsdorf Nov. 15, 2017 12:27 pmET Share ...

It is hard to overstate how abhorrent Turner's frontier thesis became to the American left, especially its new historians. His paper has been called "notorious and troubling" and a "myth." ...

Historian Frederick Jackson Turner cemented the frontier as deeply American when, in his famous “ Frontier Thesis ” of 1893, he argued that American democracy is a product of the frontier.

The frontier, Turner declared, was “a magic fountain of youth in which America continually bathed and was rejuvenated.” Grandin deepens and enriches that picture.

Like Turner’s “frontier thesis,” “The Future of Ideas” is a dazzlingly inventive work about familiar things. It deserves to change the way we think about the electronic frontier.

In Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis —that classic essay on the origins of American republicanism—the historian pauses over a description of what happens to the pioneer when ...