| Abstrakt: |
This article tells the story of the Harvard Commission on Western History (1912–1920) and its principal collector, Thomas P. Martin, a graduate student of Frederick Jackson Turner. Martin attempted to parlay his western background into donations to Harvard Library's western history collection, but many westerners objected to sharing their archival material with an elite eastern institution. Martin's correspondence reveals how western collectors viewed and imagined the U.S. East, suggesting an East of the imagination as rich in potential for study as the imagined West. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
