The frontier is closed: The worth of the american Dream the romantic and idealized view of life and man began to lose its hold in the psychology and imaginatin of the Americans Suggesnted reading: The Significance of the Frontier in American History" by Frederick Jackson Turner at http://www.learnerorg/workshops/primarysources/corpor ations/docs/turner html a Turner presented this paper to a special meeting of the American Historical association at the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Ilinois. His assessment of the frontier's significance was the first of its kind and revolutionized american intellectual and historical thinking◼ The frontier is closed: The worth of the American Dream, the romantic and idealized view of life and man began to lose its hold in the psychology and imaginatin of the Americans. ◼ Suggesnted reading: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" by Frederick Jackson Turner at http://www.learner.org/workshops/primarysources/corpor ations/docs/turner.html ◼ Turner presented this paper to a special meeting of the American Historical Association at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. His assessment of the frontier's significance was the first of its kind and revolutionized American intellectual and historical thinking