History of Higher Education in America
This page is for students enrolled in EDHE 730 at the University of South Carolina

Course Information for Spring 2022

Instructor: Christian K. Anderson
​Tuesdays, 1:15 - 4:00 p.m.
310 Wardlaw College

• Syllabus
  
• Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. and by appointment (in-person or via zoom)

Texts

• Thelin, John R. A History of American Higher Education. (3rd Ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
• Thelin, John R. Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education. (2nd Ed.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. (On Reserve)
• Greene II, Robert and Tyler D. Parry (Eds.), Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2021. (Class copy posted on Blackboard. Please do not share.)
• Other selected texts linked on assigned dates

Other Histories of Higher Education

• John S. Brubacher & Willis Rudy. Higher Education in Transition: A History of American Colleges and Universities (Transaction Publishers, 1958/1997).
• Arthur M. Cohen & Carrie B. Kisker. The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System (Jossey- Bass, 2010).
• Roger L. Geiger. The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (Princeton University Press, 2015).
• Philo A. Hutcheson. A People’s History of American Higher Education (Routledge, 2019).
• Christopher J. Lucas. American Higher Education: A History (Palgrave, 2006).
• Frederick Rudolph. The American College & University: A History (The University of Georgia Press, 1962/1990).
• Haskins, Charles Homer. The Rise of Universities. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1923/1957. Available online at JSTOR or Google Books.

Additional Course Readings & Materials

January 10, 2022 January 17, 2022

• No Class - MLK Day

January 24, 2022

• Jack At South Carolina College: Remembering Enslaved People In Columbia by Jill Found (The Metropole, 2018)
• Looking for Jack (Remembering the Days: A UofSC Podcast, 5 minutes)
• Woman fights Harvard over rights to nude SC images of her enslaved ancestors (Post & Courier, Jan. 23, 2021)

January 31, 2022

February 7, 2022

February 14, 2021

• Meet at Thomas Cooper Library
• Guidelines for Analyzing Historical Documents (From Thelin, 2014, p. xxi)
• American Historical Association. “Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct.”
• Guest: Elizabeth West, University Archives​

February 21, 2022

• Richard T. Greener site (anniversary of statue unveiling)

February 28, 2022

March 7, 2022

• No Class - Spring Break

March 14, 2022

March 21, 2022

• “Port Huron Statement,” Students for a Democratic Society, New York (1962). [Read first 5 pages; skim the rest.]
• Berkeley in the Sixties (documentary, 1990, 2 hours)​

March 28, 2022

• Wheeler Hill

April 4, 2022

• Optional Readings and Videos:
  • Two short essays by Dr. Anderson: one about statues coming down and another about them going up.
  • Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre, 1968 (documentary, 2008, 1 hour)
  • Remembering The Freedom Riders (UofSC Center for Civil Rights History and Research)
  • Cole, Eddie R. “College Presidents and Black Student Protests: A Historical Perspective on the Image of Racial Inclusion and the Reality of Exclusion.” Peabody Journal of Education 93, no. 1 (2018), 78-89. Optional extras:
    • Interview on “Best of Our Knowledge," NPR radio show (30 minutes) 
    • Interview with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Harvard Bookstore on YouTube (60 minutes)
  • Williamson, Joy. “‘Quacks, Quirks, Agitators, and Communists:’ Private Black Colleges and the Limits of Institutional Autonomy,” History of Higher Education Annual 23 (2003): 49-81

April 11, 2022

• Group Work Day

April 18, 2022

April 25, 2022

• Dress Rehearsal of Tour

April 29, 2022​

• Final Tour of Gibbes Green

History of Higher Education Resources

University of South Carolina History

• Our History (UofSC Website)
• History of the Horseshoe (UofSC Website)
• Presidential Commission on University History
• Published Histories of UofSC
• Remembering the Days Podcast
• South Caroliniana Library
  • Email: SCLREF@mailbox.sc.edu
• Trustees Minutes
• Dr. Brandt's UofSC Research Resources

​History of Education

• History of Education Society
• History of Education Quarterly 
• Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
• Organization of Educational Historians
• American Educational History Journal
• Southern History of Education Society (SHOES)​

​Writing History
​The best way to understand history is to do history. We do history by conducting research and writing up the results of our investigations. This requires reading published research, asking questions, and then going after the sources that will help us answer these questions. 

Most historical publications (books, journals, magazines) use the Chicago Manual of Style as the guide for citing sources. The Notes and Bibliography style is easiest for citing primary sources. Most of the books and articles we read for this class use this as the style guide. Chapter 14.229 provides several examples of how to cite primary sources. You can also use this "cheat sheet" I created as an easy reference.

Use these as examples of how to cite your sources. Talk to Prof. Anderson about additional questions you have. 

A few books and resources that will prove useful for those who wish to dig deeper into historical questions and methods:

• Thomas Andrews and Flannery Burke, “What Does it Mean to Think Historically?” Perspectives on History (January 2007).
• Car. N. Degler. “Why Historians Change their Minds,” Pacific Historical Review 45 (May 1976), 167-184.
• “Doing History” podcast, Season 1 on “How Historians Work” 
• Marybeth Gasman (ed.), The History of U.S. Higher Education: Methods for Understanding the Past (Routledge, 2010). 
• Martha C. Howell & Walter Prevenier. From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods (Cornell University Press, 2005).