History of Higher Education Annual: 1998 The Land-Grant ACT and American Higher Education: Contexts and Consequences

Editor’s Introduction, Articles, Alden Partridge’s Proposal for a National System of Education: A Model for the Morrill Land-Grant Act, Leading and Losing in the Agricultural Education Movement: Freeman G. Cary and Farmers’ College, 1846-1884, The Rise and Fall of Useful Knowledge: Higher Education for Science, Agriculture & the Mechanics Arts, 1850-1875, Justin S. Morrill and George W. Atherton: A Quarter-Century Collaboration to Advance the Land-Grant Colleges, The Second Morrill Act and Jim Crow Politics: Land-Grant Education at Arkansas AM&N College, 1890-1927, The Social Origins of Students at the Illinois Industrial University, 1868-1894, The Humanist Revolution in America, 1820-1860: Classical Antiquity in the Colleges, Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

Biography

Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University and editor of the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.