... to schools and colleges. Initially, football at these institutions emphasized a kicking form of the game, but the influence of rugby-style rules led to a shift toward carrying the ball. A desire for intercollegiate competition encouraged the development of a common version of the game, one that became known...

...The introduction begins with a thumbnail sketch of some of the schools that played in the 1958 NCAA College Division Basketball Championship and the varying identities with the NCAA that each represented. The 1958 tournament included liberal arts colleges, regional and small state schools...

... Logan Annie S Pruitt Miller Carol L L New Negro on Campus Black College Rebellions of the 1920s The Perkins Linda Tuck Helen Wolters Raymond Burrill Mary Harvard University Oberlin College African Americans Johnson Andrew Washington D C Armstrong Manual Training School Dunbar Paul Laurence...

... short-lived, Black men were elected to federal, state, and local political offices. Black men served as Presidents of the public Black land-grant colleges and later private Historically Black Colleges (HBCUs). They also became heads of prominent Civil Rights organizations (e.g., the National Association...

...This essay examines the central roles of Black faculty at historical Black colleges and universities and their radical pedagogical work as major incubators of Black progressive thought in the early twentieth century. Despite pressures to emulate the manual-training curriculum implemented by Booker...

...Before March Madness examines the power dynamics of mid-century college sports when their meaning in higher education was still uncertain, when their future in American culture was still undetermined, and when the ascendance, indeed the very survival, of the NCAA was not yet...

...The American system of residential colleges is conducive to athletic play in the colleges and to student management of intercollegiate athletic competition. Rugby becomes more widely accepted by student decision makers after Harvard and Yale play a second game in 1876 (when Yale defeats Harvard...

...“Verse-speaking” choirs led by women trained in elocutionary techniques were popular at women’s colleges in the 1930s and 1940s. School groups expressively speaking poetry together reflected the Depression-era values of social usefulness and civic unity. Pedagogical materials written by women...

... and young women across the country were playing soccer at playgrounds, high schools, and colleges. The chapter traces the growth of the sport among women and documents one of the earliest intercollegiate matches played in 1910. The chapter uses the story of Doris Clark and Helen Clark to illustrate some key...

...This chapter explores how an array of Sunday schools, seminaries, and religious colleges created the first viable, nationally recognized system of formal education in the Old Northwest. Outpacing state-funded public schools, the success of this movement stemmed from the support of a regional...

... employer ideas everywhere from churches to colleges and universities. In this, it presaged the sophisticated and far-reaching public relations campaigns of the post–World War II era. economic regulation Emery James A employers’ analysis postwar political and societal landscape individual rights...

...Chapter 2 details Breckinridge’s brilliant college career at Wellesley College, a women’s college in New England that provided her with a liberal arts education and inspiring role models. During her time at Wellesley, Breckinridge excelled in her coursework, engaged in extracurricular activities...

...“Abolitionist Colleges,” discusses the history and importance of three colleges established by white abolitionists for the education of Black men and women and Black youth from the 1830s-1850s. New York Central College (NYCC) in McGrawville, New York, Oberlin College in Ohio, and Berea College...

...“The College Bred Black Woman in Women’s Colleges Post Civil War” discusses the small but important number of African American women who studied at elite white private institutions (the Seven Sister Colleges) and other private white schools in the nineteenth and early twentieth century outside...

...“ Black Women and Historically Black Colleges in the South,” discusses the growth of Black colleges, both public and private. These institutions were established before the Civil War and afterward by white missionaries, Black religious denominations, and the federal government. The Second Morrill...