Presented by Kalpar

A historical look at the rise of American Exceptionalism.

Frederick Jackson Turner presented his Frontier Thesis at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Within five years America would enter the world stage as a Great Power. Learn about the birth of American Exceptionalism, one of history’s greatest myths.


Kalpar – Polymath, historian, ferroequinologist, numismatist, these and other fancy words could be applied to Kalpar with varying degrees of accuracy. Kalpar has been obsessed with trains literally since before they can remember.


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