Assignment for Wednesday, 9/12

For Wednesday, you will read something that was written a little more recently than Tocqueville - although only by about 60 years or so. Please read Frederick Jackson Turner's famous essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." First presented in 1893, the entire essay is available online here; however, you only need to read the second half of the essay, beginning with this paragraph:

"Having now roughly outlined the various kinds of frontiers, and their modes of advance, chiefly from the point of view of the frontier itself, we may next inquire what were the influences on the East and on the Old World. A rapid enumeration of some of the more noteworthy effects is all that I have time for."

If you end up printing the essay, this means that you only need to print/read from around page 8 to 15. (I don't think you'll find the footnotes helpful, so don't bother with them either.)

ALSO: Make sure you look over the Summary Guidelines we discussed in class, and especially read the Sample Summary that was handed out (and also available here). You may not have read the original reading that it summarizes, but the sample should give you a general idea of what I'm looking for in a summary. Bring any questions about the sample, or summaries in general, to class on Wednesday; you will need to summarize the next assigned reading over the weekend.