The Frontier in American History: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Frontier in American History, credited to Frederick Jackson Turner, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner. Read in English by Josh Kirsh; Colleen McMahon Frederick Jackson Turner was an extremely influential U.S. historian, who is best known for his "frontier thesis", which proposed that American democracy was profoundly shaped by the existence of an undeveloped frontier area from the founding through the 1880s. He originally put forth his idea in the essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", published just three years after the frontier was "officially closed" in 1890. He continued to elaborate on the frontier thesis as well as the influence of sectionalism, and the unique contributions of the Midwest to American democracy. His theory and other writings are still debated by modern day historians. This work, The Frontier in American History, collects a number of Turner's essays and speeches, including "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Frontier in American History
• Author credits: Frederick Jackson Turner
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 44
• Listed recording duration: 10:16:53

Opening tracks: first 24 of 44

1. 00 - Preface — 3:56
2. 01 - I - The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Part 1 — 12:50
3. 02 - I - The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Part 2 — 12:32
4. 03 - I - The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Part 3 — 12:10
5. 04 - I - The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Part 4 — 25:43
6. 05 - II - The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay - Part 1 — 11:52
7. 06 - II - The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay - Part 2 — 12:53
8. 07 - II - The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay - Part 3 — 16:08
9. 08 - III - The Old West - Part 1 — 12:41
10. 09 - III - The Old West - Part 2 — 11:30
11. 10 - III - The Old West - Part 3 — 12:15
12. 11 - III - The Old West - Part 4 — 12:05
13. 12 - III - The Old West - Part 5 — 16:07
14. 13 - III - The Old West - Part 6 — 14:02
15. 14 - III - The Old West - Part 7 — 7:10
16. 15 - IV - The Middle West - Part 1 — 12:09
17. 16 - IV - The Middle West - Part 2 — 12:44
18. 17 - IV - The Middle West - Part 3 — 15:00
19. 18 - IV - The Middle West - Part 4 — 16:59
20. 19 - V - The Ohio Valley in American History - Part 1 — 11:49
21. 20 - V - The Ohio Valley in American History - Part 2 — 12:10
22. 21 - V - The Ohio Valley in American History - Part 3 — 9:32
23. 22 - VI - The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History - Part 1 — 12:31
24. 23 - VI - The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History - Part 2 — 13:54

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