The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This book would not have been possible without the guidance of Julie Reuben, who has provided encouragement and constructive comments throughout this process. I have been blessed by her advising. I am also grateful to Nancy Cott and James Kloppenberg for their questions, advice, and kind support. Harold Wechsler, Chuck Dorn, Chris Loss, and Robert Cherny read portions of the manuscript and provided helpful feedback. I would like to thank my colleagues who discussed pieces of this work in the Boston history of education reading group, the Harvard nineteenth-century American history workshop, and the Harvard History of American Civilization colloquium. Mary Lee Griffin and Vicki Bartolini, my colleagues at Wheaton College (Massachusetts), have provided an exceptionally warm environment in which to finish this book. Gwen Walker and Paul Boyer at the University of Wisconsin Press have been welcoming and professional from the start of the publication process. Along the way, I have been fortunate to receive financial assistance from Wheaton College, Harvard University, the Spencer Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. I am indebted to the commitment of the interlibrary loan staff at Harvard University and Wheaton College, as well as the archivists of Kansas State University, the University of Kansas, the Kansas State Historical Society, North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Nebraska– Lincoln, and the Nebraska State Historical Society. I am most profoundly thankful for the support provided by family and friends. In particular, I have been lucky to share this experience (and my life) with Emily Farbman. To Sam and Sid, whose births highlighted the past three years, I look forward to more stories with you. ix The University and the People ...