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Contents: From boyhood to manhood, 1861-1884 -- The making of a historian: Wisconsin, 1884-1888 -- The making of a historian: John Hopkins, 1888-1889 -- Teaching: and the emerging frontier thesis, 1892-1893 -- The busy world of the professor, 1893-1901 -- Broadening historical horizons, 1893-1910 -- Popularizing the frontier thesis, 1893-1910 -- The genesis of the sectional concept, 1893-1910 -- Teacher and administrator, 1910-1910 -- Undergraduate teacher and reformer, 1901-1910 -- Leaving Wisconsin, 1905-1910 -- Harvard years: the academic world, 1910-1917 -- Harvard years: conflict, academic and international, 1915-1920 -- Harvard years: the world of scholarship, 1917-1924 -- The twilight years, 1924-1932 -- Frederick Jackson Turner: a portrait of the man -- The persistence of a theory: the frontier and sectional hypotheses -- The significance of Frederick Jackson Turner in American History.