Ray Allen Billington
1903 – 1981
Ray Allen Billington (September 28, 1903 in Bay City, Michigan - March 7, 1981 in San Marino, California) was an American historian who researched the history of the American frontier and the American West, becoming one of the leading defenders of Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" from the 1950s to the 1970s,[1][2] expanding the field of the history of the American West. He was a co-founder of the Western History Association in 1961.[3]
Books
- The American frontier
- Amewricas Frontier Heritage
- American History Before 1977
- The United States American Democracy In World Perspective
- The Protestant Crusade, 1800-1860
- Tentative bibliography of anti-Catholic propaganda in the United States (1800-1860)
- The Genesis of the Frontier Thesis: A Study in Historical Creativity
- A Free Negro in the Slave Era - the Journal of Charlotte L. Forten
- Westward expansion
- The historian's contribution to Anglo-American misunderstanding
- The American Frontier thesis
- Dear Lady
- The Far Western Frontier 1830-1860
- Soldier & Brave
- The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860
- Frederick Jackson Turner
- The Protestant Crusade 1800-1860, a Study of the Origins of American Nativism
- Frederick Jackson Turner
- The historian's contribution to Anglo-American misunderstanding
- American History after 1865 with Questions and Answers
- The reinterpretation of early American history;
- America's Frontier Heritage.
- The Westward Movement in the United States
- The Protestant Crusade
- Westward Expansion
- wetsward expansion
- The origins of nativism in the United States, 1800-1844
- The making of American democracy
- America's frontier heritage.
- The Far Western Frontier 1830-1960
- American history after 1865 (A Littlefield, Adams quality paperback, no. 27)
- The Far Western Frontier
- Historian's Contribution to Anglo-American Misunderstanding
- frontier and section
- American history before 1877
- The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860 (The New American nation series)
- THE FAR WESTERN FRONTIER,1830-1860.*(New American Nation Series)
- Government and the arts
- Limericks Historical and Hysterical
- The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten
- Founding of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
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