Higher Learning In America:
A Preliminary Bibliography to the 1860s
Bibliography
Finkelstein, Martin J.. The American Academic Profession: A Synthesis of Social Scientific Inquiry Since World War II. Ohio State UP, 1984.
Goodchild, Lester F., and Harold Wechsler, eds, ASHE Reader of the History of Higher Education. Association for the Study of Higher Education, 1989.
Herbst, Jurgen, The History of American Education. Goldentree Bibliographies, 1973.
Lederman, Sarah H., "Preliminary Bibliography of The History of Columbia University," Committee on the History of Columbia University , 1990
Olevnik, Peter P., ed., American Higher Education: a Guide to Reference Sources. Greenwood Press, 1993
Young, Arthur P., Higher Education in American Life, 1636-1986: a Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses. Greenwood Press, 1988
Comprehensive Accounts
Rudolph, Frederick, The American College & University [1961] (UGeorgia, 1992)
Hofstadter, Richard, and Walter Metzger, The Rise of Academic Freedom in the United States. 2 Volumes. Columbia UPress, 1955
Cremin, Lawrence A., American Education. 3 Volumes. Harper & Row, 1972-1985.
Hofstadter, Richard and Wilson Smith, eds., American Higher Education: A Documentary History. 2 Volumes. University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Rudolph, Frederick, Curriculum: A History of the American Undergraduate Course of Study since 1636. Jossey-Bass, 1977.
Rudy, Willis, The Campus and a Nation in Crisis: From the American Revolution to Vietnam. Associated University Presses, 1996.
From the Beginnings to the Civil War
General & Multi-Institutional Accounts
Bailyn, Bernard, Education in the Forming of American Society. Vintage 1960
Calhoun, Daniel H., The Intelligence of a People. Princeton University Press, 1973
Soltow, Lee, The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the US: a Socioeconomic Analysis to 1870. University of Chicago, 1981.
Cmiel, Kenneth, Democratic Eloquence: The Fight Over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America. Morrow, 1990.
Herbst, Jurgen, From Crisis to Crisis: American College Government 1636-1819. Harvard UP, 1982.
Sloan, Douglas, The Scottish Enlightenment and the American College Ideal. Teachers College Press, 1971.
Robson, David W., Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750-1800.Greenwood Press, 1985.
Whitehead, John S., The Separation of College and State: Columbia, dartmouth, Harvard, and Yale, 1776-1876. Yale UP, 1973.
Pangle, Lorraine and Thomas L. Pangle, The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders. Kansas UP, 1993.
Burke, Colin, American Collegiate Populations: A Test of the Traditional View. NYU Press, 1982.
Oleson, Alexandra and Sanborn C. Brown, eds., The Pursuit of Knowledge in the Early Republic. Johns Hopkins Press. 1976.
Diehl, Carl, Americans and German Scholarship, 1770-1870. Yale UP, 1978.
College Foundings and College Histories to the Civil War
Harvard -- 1636
Morison, Samuel Eliot, The Founding of Harvard College. Harvard UP, 1935.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, Harvard: The Seventeenth Century. 3 Volumes. Harvard UP, 1935
Morison, Samuel Eliot, Three Centuries of Harvard. Harvard UP, 1936.
Somers, Margery, "Out of Smalle Beginnings…": An Economic History of Harvard in the Puritan Period. Harvard UP, 1962.
Bailyn, Bernard, et al., Glimpses of Harvard. Harvard UP, 1986
McCaughey, Robert A., Josiah Quincy: The Last Federalist, 1772-1964. Harvard UP, 1974.
Story, Ronald, The Forging of an Aristocracy: Harvard & the Boston Upper Class, 1800-1870. Wesleyan UP, 1980.
McCaughey, Robert A., "The Transformation of American Academic Life:Harvard University, 1821-1892," Perspectives in American History, VIII (1974), 239-332.,
William & Mary -- 1697
Davis, Richard B., The Intellectual Life of the Colonial South. Tennessee UP, 1978.
Yale -- 1701
Warch, Richard, School of the Prophets: Yale College, 1701-1740. Yale UP, 1973
Morgan, Edmund S., Ezra Stiles: The Gentle Puritan. Yale UP, 1971.
Kelly, Brooks Mather, Yale: A History. Yale UP, 1974.
Princeton -- 1746
Wertenbaker, Thomas J., Princeton, 1746-1896. Princeton UP, 1946.
Noll, Mark A., Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822. Princeton UP, 1989.
King's/Columbia College -- 1754
Ellis, Joseph J., The New England Mind in Transition: Samuel Johnson of Connecticut, 1696-1772. Yale UP, 1973.
Humphrey, David C., From King’s College to Columbia, 1754-1800. Columbia UP, 1975.
Nevins, Allan, and Milton H. Thomas, eds., The Diary of Geroge Templeton Strong, 1835-1876. 4 Volumes. Macmillan, 1952.
Bender, Thomas, New York Intellect. Knopf, 1987.
Other Pre-Civil War College Histories
Bronson, Walter C., The History of Brown University, 1764-1914. Brown UP, 1914.
McCormick, Richard, Rutgers: A Bicentennial History. Rutgers UP, 1966.
Potts, David, Wesleyan University, 1831-1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England. Yale UP, 1992.
Rudolph, Frederick, Mark Hopkins and the Log: Williams College, 1836-1872. Yale, 1956.
Feuss, Claude, Amherst: The Story of a New England College. Little, Brown, 1935.
Pre-Civil War Science
Dupree, A. Hunter, Asa Gray. Harvard UP, 1959.
Kohlstedt, Sally, The Formation of the American Scientific Community: The AAAS, 1848-1860. University of Illinois Press, 1976.
A Preliminary Bibliography since the 1860s
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