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Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner

. Readin’ the West . . 1. A somnolent audience   In 1893, a year of crash and economic depression, The World’s Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago. On July 12th, a young assistant professor stood to the podium to address the eminent historians there gathered, at a meeting of the American Historical Association. It […]