Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter One • The Great Awakening and the Eighteenth-Century Colleges 9
6. Chapter Two • Enlightenment and Denominationalism in Jefferson’s Virginia 31
7. Chapter Three • Antebellum Colleges and the Inculcation of Moral Character 51
8. Chapter Four • Science and System in Nineteenth-Century Collegiate Culture 77
9. Chapter Five • Land-G rant Colleges and the Emergence of an Academic Space 97
10. Chapter Six • The Generic University 115
11. Chapter Seven • Educated Women and the Inflation of Domesticity 141
12. Chapter Eight • The Academic Culture of Nineteenth-Century Collegians 163
13. Chapter Nine • Progressive Ideology in American Higher Education 185
14. Chapter Ten • Academic Expertise in the National Interest 209
15. Chapter Eleven • The Other Captains of Erudition: From Science to General Education 229
16. Chapter Twelve • From the Liberal Core to an International Discourse 255
17. Chapter Thirteen • Federal Policy and the Postwar University 277
18. Chapter Fourteen • Clark Kerr: The Unapologetic Pragmatist 301
19. Chapter Fifteen • Challenging Pragmatism 315
20. Notes 343
21. Index 411