The American College and University: A History

First published in 1962, Frederick Rudolph’s groundbreaking study, The American College and University , remains one of the most useful and significant works on the history of higher education in America. Bridging the chasm between educational and social history, this book was one of the first to examine developments in higher education in the context of the social, economic, and political forces that were shaping the nation at large. Surveying higher…