ELLEN CONDLIFFE LAGEMANN is professor in the Center for the Study of American Culture and Education at New York University.

"Foundations are socially and politically significant, but this simple fact ... has mostly been ignored by students of American history... This collection represents an important contribution to an emerging field." - Kenneth Prewitt, Social Science Research Council

• Introduction: Foundations in History: New Possibilities for Scholarship and Practice /Ellen Condliffe LagemannPart I. Foundations as Organizations1. Resolving the Dilemmas of Democratic Governance: The Historical Development of Trusteeship in America, 1636-1996 /Peter Dobkin Hall2. Foundations in the American Polity, 1900-1950 /David Hammack3. Private Foundations as Public Institutions: Regulation, Professionalization, and the Redefinition of Organized Philanthropy /Peter FrumkinPart II. Case Studies in Early Twentieth Century Foundation Philanthropy4. Constructing a New Political Economy: Philanthropy, Institution-Building, and Consumer Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century /Meg Jacobs5. Selling the Public on Public Health: The Commonwealth and Milbank Health Demonstrations and the Meaning of Community Health Education /Elizabeth Toon6. Constructing the Normal Child: The Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Science of Child Development, 1918-1940 /Julia Grant7. Mary van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation: Religion, Social Science, and the Ironies of Parasitic Modernity /Guy AlchonPart III: Foundations and Recent Social Memory8. The Ford Foundation and Philanthropic Activism in the 1960s /Alice O'Connor9. The Ford Foundation's War on Poverty: Private Philanthropy and Race Relations in New York City, 1948-1968 /Gregory K. Raynor10. Grassrooting the System: The Development and Impact of Social Movement Philanthropy, 1953-1990 /J. Craig Jenkins and Abigail Halcli11. When Grantees Become Grantors: Accountability, Democracy, and Social Movement Philanthropy /Susan Ostrander12. The Ford Foundation and Women's Studies in American Higher Education: Seeds of Change /Rosa ProiettoPart IV: Writing the History of Foundations13. Going for Broke: The Historian's Commitment to Philanthropy /Barry D. Karl14. In Search of the Ford Foundation /Richard Magat15. The History of Philanthropy as Life-History: A Biographer's View of Mrs. Russell Sage /Ruth Hutchinson Crocker16. Local Philanthropy Matters: Pressing Issues for Research and Practice /William S. McKersie17. The Future of Foundation History: Suggestions for Research and Practice /Lucy BernholzBibliography: Recent Writings about Foundations in History /Susan KastanContributorsIndex