1. Tory Preamble: The Short History of King's College 2. Flirting with Republicanism, 1784--1816 3. Knickerbocker Days: The Limits of Academic Reform 4. Midcentury Stirrings 5. Takeoff 6. The Aspect of a University 7. Bolt to the Top 8. 1917: Twilight of Idols 9. Jews at Columbia 10. The Invention of Columbia College 11. Prosperity Lost 12. Columbia in the American Century 13. A Second Flowering 14. Afternoon on the Hudson 15. Riding the Whirlwind: Columbia '68 16. It's About Columbia 17. A Tough Place 18. Bottoming Out 19. Columbia Recovered 20. The Way We Are Epilogue: Worth the Candle?
Marking Columbia University's 250th anniversary, this is the definitive history of one of America's oldest and most redoubtable urban institutions in the country's largest, most culturally diverse city. This comprehensive history of Columbia University extends from the prefounding discussions about New York City being "a fit Place for a colledge" in 1704 to the recent inauguration of Lee Bollinger as president.
Robert McCaughey is the chairman of the Barnard History Department and the former dean of the faculty of Barnard College. He is the author of The Last Federalist: Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864 and International Studies and Academic Enterprise: A Chapter in the Academic Enclosure of American Learning, among other books.
fascinating stories of the past that seem eerily familiar in the present, even for those who have never set foot on the Columbia campus -- Katherine Reynolds Chaddock Academe
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