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ISBN: 9781400866144 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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The Puritan ordeal
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ISBN: 0674740556 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge London Harvard University Press

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Required reading : why our American classics matter now
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ISBN: 0374230072 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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Melville: his world and work
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ISBN: 0375403140 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York Knopf

The Puritan Ordeal
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ISBN: 0674034171 9780674034174 0674740556 0674740564 9780674740563 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world.


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College : What It Was, Is, and Should Be
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ISBN: 0691246386 0691246378 0691251207 Year: 2023 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still mattersAs the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience—an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers—is in danger of becoming a thing of the past.In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In describing what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's democratic promise.In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America’s colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledging the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institutions for future generations.

Required reading: why our American classics matter now
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ISBN: 0374525595 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York Noonday Press

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The war before the war : fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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ISBN: 9781594204050 9780525560302 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Penguin Press

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The portable Abraham Lincoln
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ISBN: 0670840882 0140170316 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York : Penguin Books,

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The puritan ordeal.
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ISBN: 0674740564 9780674740563 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard university press

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