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|nationality=American
|education=University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA, MA, PhD)
|spouse=Gloria Jean Lund
|children=3
|parents=John Smith Main Dorothy Kinsey Turner
|relatives=Frederick Jackson Turner (grandfather)
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Jackson Turner Main (1917–2003) was an American professor, historian and author who researched and wrote about the colonial American social order before, during and after the American Revolution. He was the grandson of Frederick Jackson Turner, author of the influential ''Frontier Thesis''. Main worked most of his adult life as a professor and author of American Revolution history where it involved the social order during that period and wrote seven ground-breaking works in this area.
