Awards & Winners

Frederick Jackson Turner

Date of Birth 14-November-1861
Place of Birth Portage
(Columbia County, Wisconsin)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Frederick Turner
Profession Historian, Author
Frederick Jackson Turner was an American historian in the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin until 1910, and then at Harvard. He trained many PhDs who came to occupy prominent places in the history profession. He promoted interdisciplinary and quantitative methods, often with a focus on the Midwest. He is best known for his essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", whose ideas formed the Frontier Thesis. He argued that the moving western frontier shaped American democracy and the American character from the colonial era until 1890. He is also known for his theories of geographical sectionalism. In recent years historians and academics have argued strenuously over Turner's work; all agree that the Frontier Thesis has had an enormous impact on historical scholarship and the American mind.

Awards by Frederick Jackson Turner

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1933


Pulitzer Prize for History
Honored for : The Significance of Sections in American History