private colleges/universities

Democracy requires something more than a handful of super-rich universities.

In its first century the American higher-education system was a messy, disorganised joke. How did it rise to world dominance?

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

Malcolm Ross is unknown today. That’s too bad. This son of privilege has much to teach us about labor and civic leadership.

"The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge"

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”

The rise and fall of the WASP.

Robert Nisbet predicted the managerialism that has brought universities low. But he also saw a way out.

Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.

In 1968, history found us at a small women’s college, forging our Black identity and empowering our defiance.

Georgetown University students consider a fund to benefit descendants of 272 slaves sold by the school nearly two centuries ago.

For the past decade, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college.

Berea College has paid for every enrollee’s education using its endowment for 126 years. Can other schools replicate the model?

To understand Catholic overrepresentation on the U.S. Supreme Court, we must look to the history of American Catholic education.

In football, prayer is—and has always been—political.

The ethical formation of citizens was once at the heart of the US elite college. Has this moral purpose gone altogether?

A vast, interactive collection of resources related to Princeton's involvement with the institution of slavery.

America's obsession with football is nearly as old as the game itself.