New Podcast Episode: The Building War on the Frontier, 1763-1774
Visit The Frontier Historian podcast hub for the newest episodes - Click Here A new episode of The Frontier Historian Podcast is out now. The episode ("The Building War on the Frontier, 1763-1774) is based on an old archival recording of mine (a test I did for the Podcast some time ago) which provides lots ...
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Introducing the Frontier Historian Podcast and Lecture Series
Newest Episode(s) on iTunes Boone's Autobiography (Complete Reading) iTunes Subscribe to Podcast 1 - Introduction 2 - The Adventures of Daniel Boone (Part 1) 2a - Read Part One of Daniel Boone's collaborative autobiography (Part 1) 3 - The Building War on the Frontier, 1763-1774 4 - ...
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Soldiers of Settlement: Violence and Psychological Warfare on the Kentucky Frontier, 1775-1783
Violence and Psychological Warfare on the Kentucky Frontier First, some news which might interest those who enjoy American History, American Studies, and the Kentucky Frontier. In the next couple of weeks I intend to produce a series of podcast lectures which will be released via iTunes which you may enjoy ...
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Publication Announcement – Native America: A State by State Historical Encyclopaedia
Last month Greenwood press released Native America: A State by State Historical Encyclopaedia. This new release, edited by Daniel S. Murphee, brings together experts from across the field to author fifty individual chapters which provide a broad overview of Indian history in the United States from the ...
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Star Trek and the Frontier: Dealing with the Final Frontier’s Problematic Legacy
The question of appropriate, justifiable, and morally correct military intervention is one that has come crashing to the fore recently with the escalation of the crisis in Syria. Though this is a relatively new issue, the competing perspectives at the heart of today's debate have been explored in some detail by ...
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Why Study the American Frontier?
Why study the American Frontier? (Part One) It probably shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that as a Scot, born and bred, I am consistently asked why I chose to research and write about the American frontier. Why did I chose to focus my work on America, why the American backcountry, and why the (now) ...
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American Progress: Some Thoughts on Frederick Jackson Turner and the Study of the American Frontier
For those who don’t know his name, Frederick Jackson Turner is one of the most important and debated figures in the field of American history, particularly frontier studies. Born in 1861, Turner published his most important and enduring work in 1893 - the ‘Frontier Thesis’ contained in ‘The ...
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