Land-Grant Colleges And Popular Revolt: The Origins Of The Morrill Act And The Reform Of Higher Education

Introduction : reconsidering the origins and early years of the land-grant college movement -- Experimentation in antebellum higher education -- Justin Morrill, the Land-Grant Act of 1862, and the birth of the land-grant colleges -- The land-grant reformation -- The new middle class and the state college ideal -- Progressivism and the rise of extension -- Coeducation and land-grant women -- Conclusion : land-grant memories, legacies, and horizons.

• | Author: Nathan M. Sorber
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1501715178
• | ISBN-13: 9781501715174