Lessons in progress : state universities and Progressivism in the new South, 1880-1920 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dennis, Michael, 1967-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2001]
Subjects:	State universities and colleges > Southern States > History. Education, Higher > Social aspects > Southern States > History. Progressivism (United States politics) > History.

Table of Contents:

Progressive educators and the state universities of the new South
Thinking about the new South: educational modernizers and Progressivism
Architects of order: progressives and the education of Blacksi in the new South
Lessons of the new South: Charles Dabney and the University of Tennessee, 1887-1904
A university for the state: Chancellor Walter Barnard Hill and the University of Georgia, 1899-1906
A missionary university: Samuel Chiles Mitchell and the University of South Carolina, 1909-13
Progressivism besieged: Governor Coleman Blease's attack on Samuel Mitchell
Visions of grandeur: Edwin Alderman and the University of Virginia, 1904-15.