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In 1904, Edmund J. James inherited the leadership of an educational institution in search of an identity. His sixteen-year tenure transformed the University of Illinois from an industrial college to a major state university that fulfilled his visi...

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The ascendancy of conservatism in the last 20 years is an unprecedented episode in American intellectual and political history. In ""Watch on the Right"", J.David Hoeveler Jr, gives us enlightening, often immensely entertaining portraits of the ke...

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The Progressive-era idea that a public university should improve the lives of people beyond the borders of its campus had its origins in nineteenth-century German idealism, liberal Protestantism, and evolutionary theory, and in the mind of brillia...

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In the Progressive Era of American history, the state of Wisconsin gained national attention for its innovative economic and political reforms. Amidst this ferment, the ""Wisconsin Idea"" was popularized¿the idea that a public university should im...

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James McCosh played a leading role in the effort to reconcile two powerful intellectual and social forces of the nineteenth century: evolution and evangelicalism. In the first modern biography of this philosopher, religious leader, and educator, J...

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James McCosh played a leading role in the effort to reconcile two powerful intellectual and social forces of the nineteenth century: evolution and evangelicalism. In the first modern biography of this philosopher, religious leader, and educator, J...

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During the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked, and even their perceptions of reality. Americans struggled to find their place in a world wher...

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During the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked, and even their perceptions of reality. Americans struggled to find their place in a world wher...

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The nine colleges of colonial America confronted the major political currents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while serving as the primary intellectual institutions for Puritanism and the transition to Enlightenment thought. The colle...

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