Websites
- History of Higher EducationGeorge Mason University open educational resource (OER) that provides access to primary sources, including an archive of digital resources at individual institutions, as well as secondary sources.
- History of the HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)Virginia State University guide to HBCU history. Includes recommended books, databases, and websites, as well as statistical information and government reports. Please note that book and database links are for the VSU library. JMU users will need to check the JMU Libraries website for availability.
Books
The History of American Higher Education (Print and eBook) by
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, tracing 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 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 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.
Call Number: LA226 .G395 2015ISBN: 9780691149394Publication Date: 2014-11-09
American Higher Education in the Postwar Era, 1945-1970 (eBook) by
After World War II, returning veterans with GI Bill benefits ushered in an era of unprecedented growth that fundamentally altered the meaning, purpose, and structure of higher education. This volume explores the multifaceted and tumultuous transformation of American higher education that occurred between 1945 and 1970, while examining the changes in institutional forms, curricula, clientele, faculty, and governance. Contributors cover topics such as the first public university to explicitly serve an urban population, the creation of modern day honors programs, how teachers' colleges were repurposed as state colleges, the origins of faculty unionism and collective bargaining, and the dramatic student protests that forever changed higher education.
ISBN: 9781138096196Publication Date: 2017-09-05
Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965 (Print and eBook) by
This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education, acknowledging its unique relationship to the expectations of the era and recognizing its particular type of adaptive activism. Linda Eisenmann illuminates the impact of this advocacy in the postwar era, identifying a link between women's activism during World War II and the women's movement of the late 1960s. Though the postwar period has been portrayed as an era of domestic retreat for women, Eisenmann finds otherwise as she explores areas of institution building and gender awareness. In an era uncomfortable with feminism, this generation advocated individual decision making rather than collective action by professional women, generally conceding their complicated responsibilities as wives and mothers.
Call Number: LC1756 .E57 2006ISBN: 9780801887451Publication Date: 2007-11-15
Higher Education in Transition (Print) by
Beginning with colonial times, the authors trace the development of our college and university system chronologically, in terms of men and institutions. They bring into focus such major areas of concern as curriculum, administration, academic freedom, and student life. eBook available at https://search.lib.jmu.edu/permalink/01JMU_INST/15ej0d6/alma991016515463806271
Call Number: LA226 .B75 1997ISBN: 1560009179Publication Date: 1997-01-30- Higher Education in Transition (eBook) by
Beginning with colonial times, the authors trace the development of our college and university system chronologically, in terms of men and institutions. They bring into focus such major areas of concern as curriculum, administration, academic freedom, and student life. Print book also available: https://search.lib.jmu.edu/permalink/01JMU_INST/15ej0d6/alma991005996329706271.
ISBN: 1560009179Publication Date: 1997-01-30
The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education (Print) by
This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education. The story is divided into five parts that provide closer examinations of representative developments. Part I describes the connection between agricultural research and American colleges. Part II shows that the responsibility of defining and implementing the land-grant act fell to the states, which produced a variety of institutions in the nineteenth century. Part III details the first phase of the conflict during the latter decades of the nineteenth century about whether land colleges were intended to be agricultural colleges, or full academic institutions. Part IV focuses on the fact that full-fledged universities became dominant institutions of American higher education. The final part shows that the land-grant mission is alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and, in fact, is inherent to their identity.
Call Number: LB2329.5 .L33 2013ISBN: 9781412851473Publication Date: 2013-03-15
College Women in the Nuclear Age (Print and eBook) by
Drawing from the letters and diaries of young women in the Cold War era, Babette Faehmel seeks to restore their unique voices and to chronicle their collective ambitions. She also explores the shifting roles that higher education played in establishing these hopes and dreams, making the case that the GI Bill served to diminish the ambitions of many American women even as it opened opportunities for many American men. A treasure-trove of original research, the book should stimulate scholarly discussion and captivate any reader interested in the thoughts and lives of American women.
Call Number: LC1756 .F34 2012ISBN: 9780813553191Publication Date: 2011-09-08
The Black Campus Movement (eBook) by
This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965.
ISBN: 9780230117808Publication Date: 2012-04-03
Going to College in the Sixties (eBook) by
In Going to College in the Sixties, Thelin reinterprets the campus world shaped during one of the most dramatic decades in American history. Reconstructing all phases of the college experience, Thelin explores how students competed for admission, paid for college in an era before Pell Grants, dealt with crowded classes and dormitories, voiced concerns about the curriculum, grappled with new tensions in big-time college sports, and overcame discrimination. Thelin augments his anecdotal experience with a survey of landmark state and federal policies and programs shaping higher education, a chronological look at media coverage of college campuses over the course of the decade, and an account of institutional changes in terms of curricula and administration.
ISBN: 9781421426815Publication Date: 2018-11-15
