Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Samuel Johnson, President of King's College: Founding King's College
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson, President of King's College, His Career and Writings: Founding King's College
Author: Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson, First President of King's College ...
Author: Edward Stewart MoffatPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Samuel Johnson, President of King's College ; His Career and Writings
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404036041
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: David S. ZubatskyPublisher:
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Stand, Columbia : a History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004
Author: Robert A. McCaugheyPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231130082
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
-- Merri Rosenberg, Education Update...
From Loyalist to Founding Father
Author: Betsy McCaughey RossPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231045063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Faith and the Founders of the American Republic
Author: Daniel L. DreisbachPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019984335X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Thirteen essays written by leading scholars explore the impact of a rich variety of religious traditions on the political thought of America's founders.
The History of American Higher Education
Author: Roger L. GeigerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691173060
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
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 author 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. He 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. The author moves through each era, exploring the growth of higher education.
Colonial New York
Author: Michael G. KammenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195107799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Today, New York stands as the capital of American culture, business, and cosmopolitanism. Its size, influence, and multicultural composition mark it as a corner-stone of our country. The rich and varied history of early New York would seem to present a fertile topic for investigation to those interested colonial America. Yet, there has never been a modern history of old New York--until this lively and detailed account by Michael Kammen. Gracefully written and comprehensive in scope, Colonial New York includes all of the political, social, economic, cultural, and religious aspects of New York's formative centuries. Social and ethnic diversity have always been characteristic of New York, and this was never so evident as in its early years. This period provides the contemporary reader with a backward glance at what the United States would become in the twentieth-century. Colonial New York stood as a precursor of American society and culture as a whole: a broad model of the American experience we witness today. Kammen's history is enlivened by a look at some of the larger-than-life personalities who had tremendous impact on the many social and political adjustments necessary to the colony's continued growth. Here we meet Peter Stuyvesant, director of New Netherland and an executive of the West India Company--a man facing the innumerable difficulties of governing a large, sprawling colony divided by Dutch, English, and Indian settlements. Ultimately, history would view him as a failure, but his strong, Calvinist approach left such an indelible stamp on the burgeoning colony that readers will be tempted to do a little revisionist thinking about his tenure. Looking at a later governor, Lord Cornbury, gives us the very opposite example of a man despised by his contemporaries as the most venal of all the colonial governors (he was an occasional public cross-dresser, wearing the clothes of his distant cousin, Queen Anne), but who forcefully guided the colony through a transition to Anglican rule. The book culminates in chapters that investigate New York's strategic role in the bloody French and Indian War, and the key part it played in the economic protests and political conflict that finally led to American independence. The intricate and tangled web of alliances, loyalties, and shifting political ground that underlies much of colonial New York's past has clearly daunted many historians from taking on the task of writing an understandable account. Michael Kammen has accepted this challenge and gives us much more than a mere chronicle. Rather, he paints a compelling portrait of colonial life as it truly was. Although this important book is thorough and informed by primary sources, Colonial New York's clear and vivid prose offers a delightful narrative that will entertain both general readers and serious scholars alike. It pays special attention to localities and contains numerous illustrations that are attentive to the decorative arts and the material culture of early New York. Surprising and enlightening, Colonial New York is a delight to read and provides new perspectives on our nation's beginnings.