The Life and Public Services of Justin Smith Morrill
Author: William Belmont Parker
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Belmont Parker
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Belmont Parker
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Published: 1971-01-01
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780306715952
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. Michael Martinez
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2019-10-10
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 149855945X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In some periods of American history, members of the legislative branch have been as influential, and sometimes more influential, than a particular president in crafting public policy and reacting to world events. Congressional Lions examines twelve influential members of Congress throughout American history to understand their role in shaping the life of the nation. The book does not focus exclusively on the biographical details of these lawmakers, although biography invariably plays a role in recalling their triumphs and tragedies. Instead, the book highlights members’ legislative accomplishments as well as the circumstances surrounding their congressional service.
Author: Robert W. Topping
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is not a sentimental book designed to warm the hearts of old grads, but it tells an important and useful story about people and programs that have had an impact on the world. -- Indiana Magazine of History
Author: Coy F. Cross II
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 1999-07-31
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0870139053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Smith Morrill: Almost every land-grant college or university in the United States has a building named for him; but are his contributions truly recognized and understood? Here is the first biography on this renowned statesman in six decades. Representative and then senator from Vermont, Morrill began his tenure in Congress in 1855 and served continuously for forty-three years. His thirty- one years in the upper chamber alone earned him the title "Father of the Senate." Coy F. Cross reveals a complex and influential political figure who, as chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, and then the Senate Finance Committee, influenced American economic policy for nearly fifty years. Morrill's most-recognized achievements are the pieces of legislation that bear his name: the Morrill land-grant college acts of 1862 and 1890. His legacy, inspired by the Jeffersonian ideal of an educated electorate, revolutionized American higher education. Prior to this legislation, colleges and universities were open primarily to affluent white men and studies were limited largely to medicine, theology, and philosophy. Morrill's land-grant acts eventually opened American higher education to the working class, women, minorities, and immigrants. Since 1862, more than 20 million people have graduated from the 104 land-grant colleges and universities spawned by his grand vision. In this long-overdue study, Cross shows the "Father of Land-Grant Colleges" to be one of America's formative nineteenth- century political figures.
Author: Daniel Peart
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2018-10-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1421426129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ultimately, this book uses the tariff issue to illustrate the critical role that lobbying played within the antebellum policymaking process.
Author: Charles Dorn
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 1501712608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for? In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university—in states from California to Maine—Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good? Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities—including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions—and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.
Author: Leonard C. Schlup
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9780765621061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers all the people, events, movements, subjects, court cases, inventions, and more that defined the Gilded Age.
Author: Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-09-30
Total Pages: 5224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This expansive, multivolume reference work provides a broad, multidisciplinary examination of the Civil War period ranging from pre-Civil War developments and catalysts such as the Mexican-American War to the rebuilding of the war-torn nation during Reconstruction. The Civil War was undoubtedly the most important and seminal event in 19th-century American history. Students who understand the Civil War have a better grasp of the central dilemmas in the American historical narrative: states rights versus federalism, freedom versus slavery, the role of the military establishment, the extent of presidential powers, and individual rights versus collective rights. Many of these dilemmas continue to shape modern society and politics. This comprehensive work facilitates both detailed reading and quick referencing for readers from the high school level to senior scholars in the field. The exhaustive coverage of this encyclopedia includes all significant battles and skirmishes; important figures, both civilian and military; weapons; government relations with Native Americans; and a plethora of social, political, cultural, military, and economic developments. The entries also address the many events that led to the conflict, the international diplomacy of the war, the rise of the Republican Party and the growing crisis and stalemate in American politics, slavery and its impact on the nation as a whole, the secession crisis, the emergence of the "total war" concept, and the complex challenges of the aftermath of the conflict.