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Books in the Public Sphere: New York Libraries and the Culture-Building Enterprise, 1754-1904
(2008-09-09)
This dissertation examines the role that libraries played in the development of
culture during the colonial period and throughout the nineteenth century. Focusing on a
group of libraries in New York City, it seeks to ...
The Intent and Fulfillment of the Morrill Act of 1862: A Review of the History of Auburn University and the University of Georgia
(2008-09-09)
What was the intent of Morrill Act, and what does it mean to be a land grant university? The principal purpose of the Morrill Act, as relevant to the twenty-first century land grant institutions, was to increase the ...
Advancing Progressive Orthodoxy: William Owen Carver and the Reconciliation of Progress and Southern Baptist Tradition
(2008-09-09)
One of the most important debates among scholars of southern religion concerns the reaction of white southern evangelical Protestantism to the modernizing influences that prevailed outside the region from the end of the ...