Thoughts of a Grad Student
The historiography of borderlands has evolved greatly over the course of the twentieth century and twenty-first century. The two fathers of borderlands history were Frederick Jackson Turner, who made the frontier and the American West a hot topic among scholars beginning in the 1890s, and Herbert Eugene Bolton who popularized the concept of Spanish borderlands… Continue reading Borderlands COMPS Recap
The era of Emancipation has been studied through multiple points of view including former slaves, abolitionists, politicians and white supremacists. This time period proved to be confusing and complicated for many Americans as they sought to figure out what this meant for the future and how their lifestyle would, or would not, be transformed. Moreover,… Continue reading Emancipation COMPS Recap
Scholars have analyzed the ways in which race, class, and gender shaped the experiences of both soldiers and civilians in one of the most tumultuous eras of American history, the Civil War. Questions about race have looked at how the African American Civil War experience differed from whites.… Continue reading Civil War COMPS Recap