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Man's evolution has been importantly shaped by the frontiers he has encountered as he moved across the world. The frontiers shaped him, but also he defined those frontiers and, for good or ill, thereby transformed the natural world and his own place in it. These volumes examine the way Frederick Jackson Turner's theory of the frontier is applied to its cultural, economic, political, and social development.
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On July 16, 1960, John F. Kennedy came to the podium of the Los Angeles Coliseum to accept the Democratic Party's nomination as candidate for President. As is customary, Kennedy used his acceptance speech to provide a slogan that would characterize his administration's style of thought and action. "I stand tonight facing West on what was once the last frontier. From the lands that stretch 3000 miles behind me, the pioneers of old gave up their safety,...
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Evelyn Schlatter's startling analysis describes how many of the new white supremacist groups in the [American] West have co-opted the region's mythology and environment based on longstanding beliefs about American character and Manifest Destiny to shape an organic, home-grown movement. Dissatisfied with the urbanized, culturally progressive coasts, disenfranchised by affirmative action and immigration, white supremacists have found new hope in the...
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"Ever since this nation's founding, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, the frontier made possible the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation -- democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, the country has a new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the effect that constant,...
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