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The Floating University
"In 1926, New York University's Floating University sailed 500 American collegians around the globe, hoping to make them better citizens of the world and demonstrate a new educational model. It didn't go well. Tamson Pietsch here excavates a rich picture of this folly, its origins, and the insights it affords into an America that was being defined increasingly by both imperialism and the professionalization of higher education. For Pietsch, the voyage traced the expanding tentacles of US power, even as it tried to somehow model a new kind of cultural expertise-with an all-white student body and crew, traveling under the implicit protection of American hegemony"--
The Miracle on Washington Square
At the millennium, one wonders: What would the founders of New York University think of the modern rendering of their great notion? Could they have, even in their wildest dreams, envisioned a University of such complexity, of such spirit, of such immense reach and resource while still fulfilling the determined destiny of its founders? More than likely, they would be amazed and proud to see how much their dream has been realized, especially considering the numerous travails New York University has weathered. The reasons for this "Miracle on Washington Square" are complicated and many. Without question, however, the University's recent successes rest in great part on the shoulders of the able ...
Taking Heaven by Storm
In 1770 there were fewer than 1,000 Methodists in America. Fifty years later, the church counted more than 250,000 adherents. Identifying Methodism as America's most significant large-scale popular religious movement of the antebellum period, John H. Wigger reveals what made Methodism so attractive to post-revolutionary America. Taking Heaven by Storm shows how Methodism fed into popular religious enthusiasm as well as the social and economic ambitions of the "middling people on the make"--skilled artisans, shopkeepers, small planters, petty merchants--who constituted its core. Wigger describes how the movement expanded its reach and fostered communal intimacy and "intemperate zeal" by means...
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Untold Stories
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The American Archivist
Includes sections "Reviews of books" and "Abstracts of archive publications (Western and Eastern Europe)."
A Faithful Mirror
A critical look at the development of the secondary and higher education systems in America; the evolution of the concept of merit and its impact on college opportunity for all students; financial aid; testing and assessment; admission and affirmative action; competing notions of the educated person - issues that will have enduring importance as we enter a new millennium.
