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The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (The William G. Bowen Memorial Series in Higher Education)

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This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The most in-depth and authoritative history of the subject to be had, The History of American Higher Education traces how colleges and universities were shaped by the shifting influences of culture, the emergence of new career opportunities, and the unrelenting advancement of knowledge.

Roger Geiger, arguably nowadays’s leading historian of American higher education, vividly describes how colonial colleges developed a unified yet diverse educational tradition able to weathering the social upheaval of the Revolution in addition to the evangelical fervor of the Second Great Awakening. He shows how the character of college education in different regions diverged significantly in the years leading as much as the Civil War―for instance, the state universities of the antebellum South were dominated by the sons of planters and their culture―and how higher education used to be later revolutionized by the land-grant movement, the growth of academic professionalism, and the transformation of campus life by students. By the beginning of the Second World War, the usual American university had taken shape, setting the stage for the postwar education boom.

Breathtaking in scope and wealthy in narrative detail, The History of American Higher Education is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the origins and development of of higher education in the USA.

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