"A Great Disorder" by Richard Slotkin explores American myth-making. Here: Gary Wear with Moody's Battery Confederate artery is seen during a demonstration of a battle during the 150th anniversary of ...

In April 1924, a road crew was working in Sequoia National Park, near the spectacular granite dome of Moro Rock, when a large shape emerged from the woods. These workers had previously been stationed ...

Introduction: the significance of the frontier myth in American history -- pt. 1. The mythology of progressivism, 1880-1902 -- The winning of the West: Theodore Roosevelt's frontier thesis, 1880-1900 ...

Historians know that the “Myth of the Frontier” has been a consistent part of American language and culture for well more than two centuries at least. Stephen Mexal’s book “Reading for Liberalism” has ...

BENTONVILLE -- Everyone needs a creation myth, a story about where we come from. For a lot of Americans, the myth of the Frontier serves this purpose. We abandoned our old world for a brave new one.

The problem is not that there is evil in the world. The problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care? — V. M. Varga There have been four (soon to be five) seasons of the TV show ...

The American Wild West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, a mythological landscape populated by quick-draw gunslingers, solitary cowboys riding into sunsets, lawless frontier towns ...