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Brown: The History of an Idea
By (author) Ted Widmer
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Founded in 1636, essentially as a refuge for outcasts from Massachusetts, the colony of Rhode Island was unusually open-minded, leading Massachusetts Puritan Cotton Mather to refer to it as ""the latrina [or sewer] of New England."" The sixth of the Ivy League universities to be founded, in 1764, Brown accepted students early on regardless of religious affiliation, and in 1969 adopted a student-proposed ""New Curriculum,"" allowing students to structure their education with relative freedom. Over the last two and a half centuries, the university and its graduates have played a notable role in numerous defining moments in the American story, from the legacy of slavery (one of the founding Brown brothers was a leading abolitionist, the other an ""ardent defender and slave trader""), to the Industrial Revolution and education reform. Although there are plenty of prominent names--among them Horace Mann, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Janet Yellen, and Edwidge Danticat--woven throughout, Widmer's is a more ambitious account that weaves its threads into a variegated history of how a university can both mirror and spur the wider culture around it.
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Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd
Published date | 1 Jul 2015
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 206 x 130 x 28mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 612g
ISBN | 978-0-5002-5216-1
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BISAC | education / history
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