The founding of Thomas Jefferson's university
2019
378.755 J45 2019
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Title
The founding of Thomas Jefferson's university
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Description
341 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
378.755 J45 2019
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1089840681
Summary
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.|Includes bibliographical references and index.|L2019M105
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