The founding of Thomas Jefferson's university /
The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University examines the development of one of America's oldest and preeminent educational institutions from a wide range of perspectives, considering aspects such as Jefferson's linked intellectual and architectural visions, the often unruly students...
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| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Jeffersonian America.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A look back at Jefferson's forward-looking mission for the university
- From academy to college to university : the prehistory of the University of Virginia / J. Jefferson Looney
- American education and Atlantic circulations / Neven Leddy
- Premature men : honor, Jefferson, and the College of William & Mary / Alan Taylor
- "Chastising a servant for his insolence" : the case of the Butter Bully / Ervin L. Jordan Jr.
- Avoiding "the appearance of dictating to the Assembly" : Thomas Jefferson and the establishment of the University of Virginia, 1818-1819 / Ellen Hickman
- From academy to academical village : Thomas Jefferson's architectural designs for public education / Joseph Michael Lasala
- Elevating Jefferson's high-flying vision for his last Delorme Dome Project at the University of Virginia's Rotunda / Douglas J. Harnsberger
- The liberty and tyranny of Jefferson's academical village / Maurie D. McInnis
- Medical education in the nineteenth century : Jefferson and Flexner revisited / Robert S. Gibson
- "At all times his chosen companions" : some notes on what books meant to Thomas Jefferson / Jurretta Jordan Heckscher
- Forming the body of a library based upon the "illimitable freedom of the human mind" / Endrina Tay
- Reading law in the early republic : legal education in the age of Jefferson / James P. Ambuske and Randall Flaherty
- God and man at the University of Virginia / Cameron Addis
- "The powers of debate should be sedulously cultivated" : the importance of eloquence in early American education and the University of Virginia / Carolyn Eastman
- From "ancients and axioms" to "every branch of science" : Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of liberal education / Johann N. Neem
- Final thoughts: The university survives.