Title
Introduction: Ruminations on the ‘F’ and ‘B’ Words
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-17-2021
Department 1
History
Abstract
Over the past two decades, historians studying the American West have embraced the label "borderlands" as a means of distinguishing their work from the triumphalism associated with Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis. Historians of early America have made a similar transition, although the term "frontier" is still very much in use among those working in the mid-Atlantic region. The articles in this special issue of Pennsylvania History illustrate how the themes of borderlands history have found their way into studies of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, even if the term itself has not gained wide currency there.
DOI
10.5325/pennhistory.88.3.0281
Recommended Citation
Shannon, Timothy J. "Introduction: Ruminations on the "F" and "B" Words." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 88, no. 3 (2021): 281-286. muse.jhu.edu/article/795808.
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