How America’s Frontier myth got its start and quickly lost the faith of its own author – Nationhood Lab
In Smithsonian Magazine, Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard shares the backstory of one of the United States’s misguided national origin stories. Frederick Jackson Turner’s massively influential and deeply flawed Frontier Thesis, which dominated the teaching and public understanding of American history for half a century after it was first presented at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, was a cul-de-sac of nationhood building| Nationhood Lab
