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What is the status of Fredrick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis among historians today? Is it still used as an explanation of broader aspects of US historical trends, or closer to something that illuminates how Americans in the early 20th century thought about their own past?

by /u/BZH_JJM in /r/AskHistorians

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