The nine colleges that existed in the original 13 colonies when the Revolutionary War broke out each shaped the new nation’s political culture in a distinct way, says J. David Hoeveler, professor of ...

The misunderstood role of the nine colonial colleges in shaping the United States’ tumultuous path to self-governance.

Often portrayed as hotbeds of revolutionary fervor, the nine colonial colleges offered curricula that proved traditional and ...

Prologue : universities, culture, careers, and knowledge -- ch. 1. The first century of the American college, 1636-1740 -- Harvard College -- Yale College -- The College of William and Mary -- ...

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In the fall of 1918, women studied for the first time at two of America’s colonial colleges. As the Influenza Pandemic called the “Spanish Flu” spread around the world, Mabel Smith Douglass opened New ...