History of Amherst College

History of Amherst College

Author: W. S. Tyler

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-29

Total Pages: 718

ISBN-13: 3368197843

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.


Amherst in the World

Amherst in the World

Author: Martha Saxton

Publisher: Amherst College Press

Published: 2020-09-11

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0943184215

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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Amherst College, a group of scholars and alumni explore the school’s substantial past in this volume. Amherst in the World tells the story of how an institution that was founded to train Protestant ministers began educating new generations of industrialists, bankers, and political leaders with the decline in missionary ambitions after the Civil War. The contributors trace how what was a largely white school throughout the interwar years begins diversifying its student demographics after World War II and the War in Vietnam. The histories told here illuminate how Amherst has contended with slavery, wars, religion, coeducation, science, curriculum, town and gown relations, governance, and funding during its two centuries of existence. Through Amherst’s engagement with educational improvement in light of these historical undulations, it continually affirms both the vitality and the utility of a liberal arts education. Contributions by Martha Saxton, Gary J. Kornblith, David W. Wills, Frederick E. Hoxie, Trent Maxey, Nicholas L. Syrett, Wendy H. Bergoffen, Rick López, Matthew Alexander Randolph, Daniel Levinson Wilk, K. Ian Shin, David S. Reynolds, Jane F. Thrailkill, Julie Dobrow, Richard F. Teichgraeber III, Debby Applegate, Michael E. Jirik, Bruce Laurie, Molly Michelmore, and Christian G. Appy.


The Life of Emily Dickinson

The Life of Emily Dickinson

Author: Richard Benson Sewall

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 932

ISBN-13: 9780674530805

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A massively detailed, illustrated biography of Emily Dickinson.


Ebony and Ivy

Ebony and Ivy

Author: Craig Steven Wilder

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1608194027

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A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.