Prologue : universities, culture, careers, and knowledge
ch. 1. The first century of the American college, 1636-1740
The College of William and Mary
Conflict and new learning in the early colleges
The embryonic American college
ch. 2. Colonial colleges, 1740-1780
New colleges for the middle colonies
College enthusiasm, 1760-1775
Colonial college students
ch. 3. Republican universities
Making colleges republican
Educational aspirations in the early republic
New colleges in the new republic
ch. 4. The low state of the colleges, 1800-1820
The problem with students
The Second Great Awakening and the colleges
The rise of professional schools
ch. 5. Renaissance of the colleges, 1820-1840
The Yale 'Reports' of 1828
Denominational colleges I
Higher education for women
ch. 6. Regional divergence and scientific advancement, 1840-1860
The early collegiate era in the northeast
Sectionalism and higher education in the south
Denominational colleges II : proliferation in the upper midwest
Science and the Antebellum college
ch. 7. Land grant colleges and the practical arts
The colleges and the Civil War
The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862
Agricultural colleges and A&Ms
Engineering and the land grant colleges
ch. 8. The creation of American universities
Research, graduate education, and the new universities
The great American universities
Columbia College and the University of Pennsylvania
ch. 9. The collegiate revolution
High schools, colleges, and professional schools
Higher education for women, 1880-1915
ch. 10. Mass higher education, 1915-1940
Shaping elite higher education
Liberal culture and the curriculum
Advanced education of African Americans
ch. 11. The standard American university
Philanthropic foundations and the standardization of higher education
Research universities in the Golden Age and beyond
Students and the Great Depression
American higher education in 1940
The American system of higher education
ch. 12. Culture, careers and knowledge.
