American Academic Cultures
A History of Higher Education
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Introduction
Chapter One
The Great Awakening and the Eighteenth-Century Colleges
Chapter Two
Enlightenment and Denominationalism in Jefferson’s Virginia
Chapter Three
Antebellum Colleges and the Inculcation of Moral Character
Chapter Four
Science and System in Nineteenth-Century Collegiate Culture
Chapter Five
Land-Grant Colleges and the Emergence of an Academic Space
Chapter Six
The Generic University
Chapter Seven
Educated Women and the Inflation of Domesticity
Chapter Eight
The Academic Cultures of Nineteenth-Century Collegians
Chapter Nine
Progressive Ideology in American Higher Education
Chapter Ten
Academic Expertise in the National Interest
Chapter Eleven
The Other Captains of Erudition: From Science to General Education
Chapter Twelve
From the Liberal Core to an International Discourse
Chapter Thirteen
Federal Policy and the Postwar University
Chapter Fourteen
Clark Kerr: The Unapologetic Pragmatist
Chapter Fifteen
Challenging Pragmatism
Notes
Index
Education: Education--General Studies | Higher Education
History: American History | General History
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