A lively narrative connecting Wesleyan University's early history to economic, religious, urban, and educational developments in 19th-century America.
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"In this adroit blend of institutional and cultural history, David B. Potts provides an exemplary analysis of the first eighty years of Wesleyan University. He not only describes how the college changed its president, faculty, students, and curriculum (which one expects in institutional history), but he also deftly explains its identity shifts in terms of the broad context of higher education in the United States." --William G. McLoughlin, New England Quarterly
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"This is the best college history to appear in many years. Potts manages to cover all of the interesting topics, from students and football to curriculum and trustees, without ever dropping a thread in the narrative fabric. Wesleyan University is full of new insights for students of higher education, and yet at the same time it is an exceptionally good read." (Stanley N. Katz, President, American Council of Learned Societies )
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Fascinating for all concerned about higher ed, then & now,
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This review is from: Wesleyan University, 1831-1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England (Paperback)
Though targeted for an academic audience, this book is spellbinding for anyone interested in the history of higher education in America, not just those with a special connection to Wesleyan. David Potts interweaves institutional history and analysis of broad social trends to document the first seventy years of Wesleyan University.Among the narrative threads of interest to the general reader, Potts shows that questions of coeducation and "racial diversity" have a much longer history than one is led to believe. This reader eagerly awaits the upcoming Vol. II--1910-1969.
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