History 162: Lecture 1

History 263: Readings in Frontier and Western History



HISTORY 162: LECTURE 1
POSSIBILITIES LOST:
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER AND WEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY

  1. The Johnson County War (1892)

  2. The Legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner
    1. The Significance of "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)
    2. The Rise and Fall of the Frontier Thesis

  3. The Western and the Winning of the West

  4. Paradise Lost: The West and the Western Revised
    1. A "New Age" for Indians
    2. Environmentalism and Environmental History
    3. Revisionism Resisted
      1. Conquest Denied
      2. Conquest Justified

  5. Possibilities Lost
    1. Redefining the Frontier as Intercultural Borderland
    2. Defining Conquest, Colonization, and Consolidation of the "Great West"
    3. The Significance of Contingency
    4. Beyond the Frontier: The Significance of the Twentieth- Century West