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A College of Her Own offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard from its beginnings to the present day. Through the stories of presidents and leading figures as well as students and faculty, Robert McCaughey recounts Barnard's history and development.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. “What’s a New York Girl to Do?”
2. East Side, West Side: A Tale of Two Cities
3. Becoming Barnard
4. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Gilderesleeve?
5. Barnard in the Twenties
6. Lean Times: Depression, War, and Other Distractions
7. The McIntosh Era
8. Into the Storm
9. Saying No to Zeus
10. Barnard Rising
11. New York, New York
12. Going Global
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
Robert McCaughey is professor of history and Janet H. Robb Chair in the Social Sciences at Barnard College. His previous Columbia University Press books include Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754–2004 (2003) and A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864 (2014).
Summary
A College of Her Own offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard from its beginnings to the present day. Through the stories of presidents and leading figures as well as students and faculty, Robert McCaughey recounts Barnard’s history and development.
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A College of Her Own gives us a deeply researched, vividly written, bracingly candid account. McCaughey shows how a small, chronically undercapitalized, mostly Protestant college for women came to leverage its affiliation with one of America’s greatest research universities and to embrace the religious, racial, and ethnic heterogeneity of its urban location to become the most selective women’s college in America.
