Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Alan I Marcus
1. Land-Grant Colleges and the Pre-Modern Era of American Higher Education, 1850–1890 / Roger L. Geiger
Part One: Science Assumes Center Stage
2. Transnational Exchanges of Agricultural Scientific Thought from the Morrill Act through the Hatch Act / Mark R. Finlay
3. The Rise and Fall of the Grange’s Yankee Land-Grant Colleges, 1873–1901 / Nathan M. Sorber
4. Is Milk the Measure of All Things? Babcock Tests, Breed Associations, and Land-Grant Scientists, 1890–1920 / Micah Rueber
5. Engineering National Character: Early Land-Grant College Science and the Quest for an American Identity / Paul K. Nienkamp
6. People’s Colleges for Other Citizens: Black Land-Grant Institutions and the Politics of Educational Expansion in the Post–Civil War Era / Debra A. Reid
Part Two: Extending the Scientific/Technical Toolbox
7. The Morrill Land-Grant Act and American Cities: The Neglected Story / Robert B. Fairbanks
8. Generating Knowledge and Power: The Role of Land-Grant Colleges in Electrifying America / Richard F. Hirsh
9. Spreading Their Butter Too Thin: Land-Grant Libraries, 1900–1940 / Sara E. Morris
10. Engineering and the Land-Grant Tradition at the University of Illinois, 1868–1950 / Bruce E. Seely
Conclusion / Alan I Marcus
Appendix: US Congressional Acts Pertaining to the Land-Grant Institutions
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index