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 available, 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 today's leading historian of American higher education, vividly describes how colonial colleges developed a unified yet diverse educational tradition capable of weathering the social upheaval of the Revolution as well as 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 up to the Civil War—for example, the state universities of the antebellum South were dominated by the sons of planters and their culture—and how higher education was 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 standard American university had taken shape, setting the stage for the postwar education boom.
Breathtaking in scope and rich 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 United States.
"An encyclopedic history of American colleges and universities. . . . A well-researched, detailed tome."--Kirkus Reviews
"The thoroughness, judiciousness, and clarity of this book make it the gold standard on the subject. Encyclopedic in coverage, The History of American Higher Education commands more information, scholarship, and analysis than any other work of its kind. Geiger is the acknowledged leader in the field."--James Axtell, author of The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present
"The History of American Higher Education is an impressive achievement. The prose is consistently clear and accessible, the coverage is comprehensive, and the breadth and depth of knowledge are downright incredible."--Julie A. Reuben, Harvard University
"Geiger has written a magisterial, almost encyclopedic history of higher education in the U.S. from its beginnings in the 17th century until 1940. . . . Well-written and filled with copious detail."--Choice
"Geiger's History of American Higher Education is an excellent survey of this complex topic. It is a very valuable addition to the historical literature on American higher education."--Steven Diner, H-Net Reviews
"To say that Roger L. Geiger has done his homework would be an understatement. . . . Mr. Geiger packs decades of research into one exhaustive tome that tracks the evolution of American higher education from the 17th Century to 1940. . . . Skimming would be rather pointless given the learning opportunity that Mr. Geiger has carefully crafted here, one rich paragraph at a time."--Amy Lyons, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Winner of the 2015 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award, American Educational Research Association
"'At Last!' Etta James does not usually come to mind when you're reviewing a scholarly book. Her 1960 signature song on vintage vinyl, 45 rpm, however, expressed my sentiment when I received Roger L. Geiger's new The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture From the Founding to World War II. Many of us in the field have been waiting for this big book. . . . Important."--John R. Thelin, Chronicle Review
PROLOGUE: UNIVERSITIES, CULTURE, CAREERS, AND KNOWLEDGE xiii
1THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, 1636 -1740
Harvard College 1
Yale College 8
The College of William & Mary 11
Conflict and New Learning in the Early Colleges 15
The Embryonic American College 25
2COLONIAL COLLEGES, 1740 -1780
New Colleges for the Middle Colonies 33
Enlightened Colleges 48
College Enthusiasm, 1760-1775 57
Colonial College Students 76
3REPUBLICAN UNIVERSITIES
Making Colleges Republican 92
Educational Aspirations in the Early Republic 102
New Colleges in the New Republic 109
4THE LOW STATE OF THE COLLEGES, 1800 -1820
The Problem with Students 125
The Second Great Awakening and the Colleges 132
The Rise of Professional Schools 143
Who Owns Colleges? 160
5RENAISSANCE OF THE COLLEGES, 1820 -1840
New Models for Colleges 175
The Yale Reports of 1828 187
Denominational Colleges I 193
Higher Education for Women 206
6REGIONAL DIVERGENCE AND SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT, 1840 -1860
The Early Collegiate Era in the Northeast 215
Sectionalism and Higher Education in the South 229
Denominational Colleges II: Proliferation in the Upper Midwest 243
Science and the Antebellum College 256
7LAND GRANT COLLEGES AND THE PRACTICAL ARTS
Premodern Institutions 270
The Colleges and the Civil War 277
The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 281
Land Grant Universities 287
Agricultural Colleges and A&Ms 298
Engineering and the Land Grant Colleges 306
8THE CREATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
The First Phase 316
The Academic Revolution 326
Research, Graduate Education, and the New Universities 338
The Great American Universities 348
Columbia College and the University of Pennsylvania 350
State Universities 354
9THE COLLEGIATE REVOLUTION
The High Collegiate Era 365
High Schools, Colleges, and Professional Schools 380
Higher Education for Women, 1880-1915 394
Liberal Culture 408
10MASS HIGHER EDUCATION, 1915 -1940
World War I 423
Mass Higher Education 428
Shaping Elite Higher Education 446
Liberal Culture and the Curriculum 455
Advanced Education of African Americans 467
11THE STANDARD AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Philanthropic Foundations and the Standardization of Higher Education 479
Research Universities in the Golden Age and Beyond 491
Students and the Great Depression 507
American Higher Education in 1940 514
The American System of Higher Education 532
12CULTURE, CAREERS, AND KNOWLEDGE 539
INDEX 553
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