Introduction: Ruminations on the 'F' and 'B' Words
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Shannon
- Source
- Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 88:281-286
- Subject
- History
- Language
- ISSN
- 2153-2109
0031-4528
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.