<P> `` The Significance of the Frontier in American History '' is a seminal essay by the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner which advanced the Frontier Thesis of American history . It was presented to a special meeting of the American Historical Association at the World 's Columbian Exposition in Chicago , Illinois in 1893 , and published later that year first in Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin , then in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association . It has been subsequently reprinted and anthologized many times , and was incorporated into Turner 's 1921 book , The Frontier in American History , as Chapter I . </P>
<P> `` The Significance of the Frontier in American History '' is a seminal essay by the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner which advanced the Frontier Thesis of American history . It was presented to a special meeting of the American Historical Association at the World 's Columbian Exposition in Chicago , Illinois in 1893 , and published later that year first in Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin , then in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association . It has been subsequently reprinted and anthologized many times , and was incorporated into Turner 's 1921 book , The Frontier in American History , as Chapter I . </P>
who wrote the significance of the frontier in american history
who wrote the significance of the frontier in american history
Frederick Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner