A College of Her Own : : The History of Barnard /

A College of Her Own : : The History of Barnard / / Robert McCaughey.

In 1889, Annie Nathan Meyer, still in her early twenties, led the effort to start Barnard College after Columbia College refused to admit women. Named after a former Columbia president, Frederick Barnard, who had advocated for Columbia to become coeducational, Barnard, despite many ups and downs, be...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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McCaughey, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
©2019
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Columbiana
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 44 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. “WHAT’S A NEW YORK GIRL TO DO?”
  • 2. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
  • 3. BECOMING BARNARD: A PLACE IN THE CITY
  • 4. WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA GILDERSLEEVE?
  • 5. GOOD TIMES: BARNARD IN THE TWENTIES
  • 6. TOUGH TIMES: DEPRESSION, WAR, AND OTHER DISTRACTIONS
  • 7. AGAINST NOSTALGIA: THE McINTOSH ERA
  • 8. INTO THE STORM
  • 9. SAYING NO TO ZEUS
  • 10. BARNARD RISING
  • 11. “NEW YORK, NEW YORK”
  • 12. GOING GLOBAL
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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