Land-grant colleges and popular revolt : : the origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher education / / Nathan M. Sorber.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca ;, London : : Cornell University Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : reconsidering the origins and early years of the land-grant college movement
- Experimentation in antebellum higher education
- Justin Morrill, the Land-Grant Act of 1862, and the birth of the land-grant colleges
- The land-grant reformation
- The new middle class and the state college ideal
- Progressivism and the rise of extension
- Coeducation and land-grant women
- Conclusion : land-grant memories, legacies, and horizons.