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Volumes 1 - 26 (1981-2006)

Volume 1 - 1981

• A Message to Lushtamar: The Hilprecht Controversy and Semitic Scholarship in America by Paul Ritterband & Harold Wechsler
• Church, State, and Higher Education: College Government in the American Colonies and States before 1820, Jurgen Herbst
• Education in Conflict: The Booker Washington Institute of Liberia, Donald Spivey
  Curriculum and Enrollments: Some Thoughts on Assessing the Popularity of Antebellum Colleges, David B. Potts
• The Bryn Mawr Workers' Summer School, 1921-1933: A Surprising Alliance, Rita R. Heller
• The University Under Mussolini: The Fascist-Catholic Struggle for Italian Youth, 1922-43, Richard J. Wolff

Volume 2 - 1982

• Oxford Dons and Professional Men in Victorian England, Arthur Engel
• "Western Colleges, 1830-1870: Educational Institutions in Transition, James Findlay
• The Mental Hygiene Movement and the Development of Personality: Changing Conceptions of the American College and University, 1920-40, Sol Cohen
• Academic Quality Rankings: Why They Developed in the United States and Not Europe, David S. Webster
• Against the Grain: Toward an Alternative Interpretation of Academic Professionalization, Sheila Slaughter & Edward T. Silva

Volume 3 - 1983

• Henry Flynt and The Great Awakening at Harvard College (1741-1744), Edward T. Dunn
• Between the Old-Time College and the Modern University: Noah Porter and the New Haven Scholars, Louise L. Stevenson
• Incipit Vita Nuova: Founding Ideals of the Wellesley College Community, Patricia Palmieri
• Establishing a University in a Country Town: An Australian Case, Bruce Mitchell
• From Tutor to Specialized Scholar: Academic Professionalization in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century America, Martin Finkelstein
• Vision and Fulfillment: The Evolution of the Hebrew University, 1901-1950, Yaacov Iram

Volume 4 - 1984

• The Conditions of University Research, 1900-1920, Roger L. Geiger
• Donald Davidson’s Cultural Conservative Critique of the New University Movement in the South, John H. Kohler III
• "Oars and the Man": Pleasure and Purpose in Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge, J.A. Mangan
• "What if the Power Does Lie Within Me?": Women Students at the University of Wisconsin, 1875-1900, Amy Hague
• Discrimination at Syracuse University, 1916-1952, Harvey Strum

Volume 5 - 1985

• John Calvin and the Geneva Academy: Roots of the Board of Trustees, Alan Karp
• Problems in Categorization and Generalization in the History of American Higher Education: An Approach Through the Institutional Associations, Hugh Hawkins
• Henry Suzzallo and the University of a Thousand Years, Donald T. Williams
• The Politics of Education and Reform: Henry Garland Bennett in Oklahoma, 1907-1951, Courtney Ann Vaughn-Roberson
• The Role of Politics in the Organization and Development of Public Higher Education in Idaho and Washington, Lois A. Fisher

Volume 6 - 1986

• Farmers' Daughters: The Education of Women at Alfred Academy and University Before the Civil War, Kathryn M. Kerns
• "The Kind of Knowledge of Most Worth to Young Women": Post-Secondary Vocational Training for Teaching and Motherhood at the Wheelock School, 1888-1914, Barbara Beatty
• The Challenge of Jane Addams: A Research Note, Ellen Condliffe
• Lagemann Education for Equality: Women's Rights Periodicals and Women's Higher Education, 1849-1920, Patricia Smith Butcher
• The Turning Point in American Jesuit Higher Education: The Standardization Controversy Between the Jesuits and the North Central Association, 1915-1940, Lester F. Goodchild
• Review Essay: Celebrating Fair Harvard, Suzanne Hildenbrand

Volume 7 - 1987

• Revisiting Hutchins and The Higher Learning in America, Benjamin McArthur
• The Graduate Education of a Black Scholar: Horace Mann Bond and the University of Chicago, Wayne J. Urban
• Preserving the Pedestal: Restrictions on Social Life at Southern Colleges for Women, 1920-1940, Amy Thompson Candless
• The Founding and Early Years of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Robert E. Fierstien
• Against the Odds: Mother Irene Gill and the Founding of the College of New Rochelle, Tracy Mitrano
• Review Essay: Knowledge and Power: American Higher Education in the Twentieth Century, Robert L. Church
• Review Essay: Social Science and the Social Functions of Ideas, Thomas S. Popkewitz

Volume 8 - 1988

• Exile and Return: Political Science in the Context of (West-) German University Development from Weimer to Bonn, Rainer Eisfeld
• Abraham Flexner and the Politics of Educational Reform, Steven C. Wheatley
• "Forcing Them to be Free": Antioch College and Progressive Education in the 1920s, Judith Sealander
• "Putting a Woman in Sole Power": The Presidential Succession at Bryn Mawr College, 1892-1894, Cynthia F. Brown
• Review Essay: Mixed Blessings: Science and Specialization in American Medical Education, Ellen More
• Review Essay: Lawrence Cremin on American Higher Education, James McLachlan

Volume 9 - 1989

• Race,  and the Bonds of Womanhood at Spelman Seminary, 1881-1923, Lynn D. Gordon
• Promoting "Responsible Freedom": Administrators and Social Fraternities at the University of Illinois, 1900-1931, Finnegan Terence
• "The Best Emissaries": M.B.A. Students at Cornell University, 1948-1987, James W. Schmotter
• Nelson Rockefeller and the Politics of Higher Education in New York State, Judith S. Glazer
• Review Essay: Writing the History of the Disciplines, Steven J. Diner
• Review Essay: Athletics and the Academy, Nancy J. Struna

Volume 10 - 1990

• The University of Padua 1405-1600: A Success Story, Paul F.Grendler
• When Professors Had Servants: Prestige, Pay and Professionalization, 1860-1917, W. Bruce Leslie
• Subway Scholars at Concrete Campuses: Daughters of Jewish Immigrants Prepared for the Teaching Profession, New York City, 1920-1940, Ruth Jacknow Markowitz
• Politics, Science, and Education in New Mexico: The Racial-Attitudes Survey of 1933, Lynne Marie Getz
• The Gender Effect: The Early Curricula of Beloit College and Rockford Female Seminary, Lucy Townsend
• Review Essay: Toward a Political History of American Foundations, David C. Hammack

Volume 11 - 1991

• Celebrating Roots: Sesquicentennials and the Distinctiveness of the Liberal Arts College, John S. Whitehead, Jurgen Herbst, & David B. Potts
• Institutional History and Ideology: The Evolution of Two Women’s Colleges, Ted I.K. Youn & Karyn A. Loscocco
• The Hebrew Technion in Haifa, Israel (1902-1950): Academic and National Dilemmas, Yuval Dror
• Requiem for a Pioneer of Women's Higher Education: The Ingham University of Le Roy, New York, 1857-1892, Richard L. Wing
• Review Essay: Places Where Status is Sought, Nancy Hoffman

Volume 12 - 1992

• Introduction to Volume Twelve, Harold S. Wechsler
• The Historical Matrix of American Higher Education, Roger L. Geiger
• Responses to "The Historical Matrix of American Higher Education,"  E.D. Duryea, Jurgen Herbst, & W. Bruce Leslie
• No Shade in the Golden State: School and University in Nineteenth Century California,  Geraldine Joncich Clifford
• Conflict and Community in Soviet Institutes of Higher Education, 1921-1928, Peter Konecny
• Translatio Studii: The Transfer of Learning From the Old World to the New, Jurgen Herbst
• Centralization and Decentralization of State Decision Making for Public Universities: Illinois, 1960-1990, Carol Everly Floyd
• Review Essay: The Not-So-Old-Time College, Roger Williams

Volume 13 - 1993

• Introduction to Volume Thirteen, Roger L. Geiger
• "Backing into Sponsored Research": Physics and Engineering at Princeton University, 1945-1970, Amy Sue Bix
• American Universities and the Inclusion of Professional Schools, Hugh Hawkins
• The 'German Model' and the Graduate School: The University of Michigan and the Origin Myth of the American University, James Turner & Paul Bernard
• The Chinese Scholars and the Modern University: The Appropriation of Foreign Educational Models, 1900-1930, Diana Chen
• Nathan Glazer's "Schools of the Minor Professions" and the Evolution of Schools of Education, Business, and Journalism, Patricia L. Gregg

Volume 14 - 1994

• Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century: Introduction to Volume Fourteen, Roger L. Geiger
• From Academy to University in New York State: The Genesee Institutions and the Importance of Capital to the Success of an Idea, 1848-1871, Nancy Beadie
• "We Desire Our Future Rulers to be Educated Men:" South Carolina College, the Defense of Slavery, and the Development of Secessionist Politics, Michael Sugrue
• Bringing Science to the South: The School for the Application of Science to the Arts at the University of South Carolina, Thomas Kevin B. Cherry
• Patterns of Access to Modern European Universities: Rates of Enrollment,Fritz Ringer
• Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 15 - 1995

• The Rights of Man and the Rites of Youth: Fraternity and Riot at Eighteenth Century Harvard, Leon Jackson
• The Era of Multi-Purpose Colleges in American Higher Education, 1850-1890, Roger L. Geiger
• A "Curious Working of Cross Purposes" in the Founding of the University of Chicago, Willard J. Pugh
• Patterns of Access to the Modern European Universities: The Social Origins of Students, Fritz Ringer
• Review Essay: The Academic Revolution Across Three Cultures, W. Bruce Leslie
• Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 16 - 1996

• The Harvard Tutors: The Beginning of an Academic Profession, 1690-1825, John D. Burton,
• "A Salutary Rivalry": The Growth of Higher Education for Women in Oxford, Ohio, 1855-1867, Margaret A. Nash,
• "Noah Porter Writ Large": Reflections on the Modernization of American Education and Its Critics, 1866-1916, Peter Dobkin Hall
• Californians and Public Higher Education: Political Culture, Educational Opportunity and State Policymaking, John Aubrey Douglass
• College As It Was in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Roger L. Geiger & Julie Ann Bubolz
• The Rise of the University and the Secularization of the Academy: The Role of Liberal Protestantism, Kathleen A. Mahoney
• Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 17 - 1997

• The Urban Catholic University in the Early Twentieth Century: Depaul, 1898-1940, John L. Rury
• In the President's Opinion: Robert Maynard Hutchins and the University of Chicago, Philo A. Hutcheson
• The Politics of Opportunity: Out-of-State Aid, and Black Higher Education in the South, Jayne R. Beilke
• The Political Culture of America's Antebellum Colleges, Paul H. Mattingly Historical Sociology Meets the Credentialing Society, John F. P. Halsey & W. Bruce Leslie
• Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 18 - 1998 - The Land-Grant Act and American Higher Education: Context and Consequences

• Alden Partridge's Proposal for a National System of Education: A Model for the Morrill Act, Gary Thomas Lord
• Leading and Losing in the Agricultural Educational Movement: Farmer's College, 1946-1884, Julianna Chaszar
• The Rise and Fall of Useful Knowledge: Higher Education for Science, Agriculture & the Mechanic Arts, 1850-1875, Roger L. Geiger
• Justin S. Morrill and George W. Atherton: A Quarter Century Collaboration, Roger L. Williams
• The Second Morrill Act and Jim Crow Politics: Arkansas A&M College, 1890-1927C. Fred Williams
• The Social Origins of Students at Illinois Industrial University, 1868-1894J. Gregory Behle & William E. Maxwell
• The Humanist Revolution in America, 1820-1860: Classical Antiquity in the Colleges, Caroline Winterer
• Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 19 - 1999 - Southern Higher Education in the 20th Century

• The Articulation of Secondary and Higher Education: Four Historical Models at the University of GeorgiaJ. Patrick McCarthy
• Guiding Desegregation: The Role of "the Intelligent White Men of the South" 1845-1954, Melissa F. Kean
• Opportunity Squandered: Tulane University and the Issue of Racial Desegregation During the 1950s, Clarence L. Mohr
• Catching Up: The Advance of Emory University Since World War II, Nancy Diamond
• In Pursuit of Prominence: James B. Holderman at the University of South Carolina, 1977-1991, Henry H. Lesesne,
• Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 20 - 2000

• Before and After Humboldt: European Universities Between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Robert Anderson
• The Independent Intellectual as Academic Gadfly: One Variety of Anti-Academicism, Hugh Hawkins
• Rethinking Boundaries: The History of Women, Philanthropy, and Higher Education, Andrea Walton
• Retrospective: A Not so Distant Mirror: Great Depression Writings on the Governance and Finance of Public Higher Education, Richard Novak & David Leslie
• Symposium Report: Exploring Our Professional Backyards: Toward Writing Recent History of American Colleges and Universities
  • Editor's Introduction Roger L. Geiger
  • Institutional Histories: State of the Art David B. Potts
  • Writing Postwar Institutional Histories, W. Bruce Leslie
  • Review Essay: Markets and History: Selective Admissions and American Higher Education Since 1950, Roger L. Geiger

• Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 21 - 2001

• Student Religious Life in the "Era of Secularization:" The Intercollegiate YMCA, 1877-1940, David P. Setran
• Origins of the YMCA Universities: Organizational Adaptations in Urban Education, Dorothy E. Finnegan & Brian Cullaty
• Contested Ground: Howard Odum, the Southern Agrarians, and the Emerging University in the South During the 1930s, Amy E. Wells
• From the Sit-Ins to Vietnam: The Evolution of the Student Activism on Southern College Campuses, 1960-1970, Jeffrey Turner
• Rethinking American Professional Education, Jurgen Herbst
• Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 22 - 2002

• A Canon of Democratic Intent: Reinterpreting the Roots of the Great Books Movement, Katherine Chaddock Reynolds
• Small Towns, Small Sects, and Coeducation in Midwestern Colleges, 1853-1861, Doris Malkmus
• A Word for Every Occasion: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the United Negro College Fund, 1944-1960, Marybeth Gasman
• The 1947 President's Commission on Higher Education and the National Rhetoric on Higher Education Policy, Philo Hutcheson
• Research Note: State Higher Education Database, 1870-1965: An Introduction, Susan R. Richardson
• Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 23 - 2003-2004

• Higher Education and Civil Rights: South Carolina, 1860s-1960s,Peter Wallenstein
• In Pursuit of Excellence: Desegregation and Southern Baptist Politics at Furman University, Courtney L. Tollison
• Quirks, Quacks, Agitators, and Communists”: Private Black Colleges and the Limits of Institutional Autonomy, Joy Ann Williamson
• Collegiate Living and Cambridge Justice: Regulating the Colonial Harvard Student Community in the Eighteenth Century, John Burton
• Envisioning an Urban University: President David Henry and the Chicago Circle Campus of the University of Illinois, 1955-1975, Fred W. Beuttler Review Essay: From Donnish Dominion to Economic
• Engine: Explaining the Late John F. Halsey & 20th Century Revolution in English Higher Education, W. Bruce Leslie
• Encyclopedias as Institutional History, Roger L. Geiger & Christian K. Anderson
• Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 24 - 2005 (Name changed to Perspectives on the History of Higher Education)

• Piggy Goes to Harvard: Mass Magazines, the Middle , and the Re-Conceptualization of College for a Corporate Age, 1895-1910, Daniel A. Clark
• "What Gender is Lex?" Women, Men, and Power Relations in Colleges of the Nineteenth Century, Michael David Cohen
• The "Problem of the Gifted Student": National Research Council Efforts to Identify and Cultivate Undergraduate Talent in a New Era of Mass Education, 1919-1929, Jane Robbins,
• Reds, Race, and Research: Homer P. Rainey and the Grand Texas Tradition of Political Interference, 1939-1944, Susan R. Richardson
• A Not-So-Systematic Effort to Study Art: Albert Barnes and Lincoln University, Edward Epstein & Marybeth Gasman,
• Selected Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 25 - 2006

• Northern Piety and Southern Honor: Alva Woods and the Problem of Discipline at the University of Alabama, 1831-1837, Stephen Tomlinson & Kevin Windham
• Nationalist Science and International Academic Travel in the Early Nineteenth Century: Geological Surveys and Global Economics, 1800-1840, Adam R. Nelson
• Shaping Patent Policy: The National Research Council and the Universities from World War I to the 1960s, Jane Robbins
• The Academic Work Ethic at Yale, 1939-1982, Robert L. Hampel
• Review Essay: Nineteenth Century Coeds and the Value of an "Identified" Life, Doris J. Malkmus
• Review Essay: "Time, Place, and Character": The American College and the University Presidency in the Late Twentieth Century, Nancy Diamond
• Selected Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Volume 26 - 2007

• The initial Reception of MIT, 1860s-1880s, A.J. Angulo
• Noah Porter Revisited, George Levesque
• For Education and Employment: The American Federation of Teachers and Academic Freedom, 1926-1941, Timothy Reese Cain
• Conservatism Goes to College: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in the Rise of Conservative Student Networks, Jennifer de Forest
• Nicholas Murray Butler: James McKeen Cattell, and the Educational Review: Footnote to a Famous Feud, Paul M. McInerny
• Selected Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education