NPG: American Origins; Gilded Age

"The frontier has gone," historian Frederick Jackson Turner declared in 1893, troubled by evidence from the 1890 census that the country was now settled from Maine to California. Believing that successive waves of territorial expansion had helped to define the American character, he wondered about the future of the United States.

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items are from 26 Aug 2008.