A glance at the current issue of Historically Speaking: Colonial colleges and the RevolutionThe nine colleges that existed in the original 13 colonies when the Revolutionary War broke out each ...

The colonial college, the lecturer continued, was a religious and educational garrison, founded on English modes and governed by rigid rules. Punch and "flip" were forbidden, ...

Higher education has a long and fraught relationship with the labor market. From colonial colleges training clergymen to the Morrill Act, normal schools, and the great 20th-century expansion of ...

When When The College of William and Mary celebrates the end of its third century in 1993, it will be the second American institution to reach the venerable age of 300. Harvard did so in 1936, and ...

When the American Revolution began in 1775, only 721 students attended the nine colonial colleges. By 2010 enrollments had surpassed 20 million. Yet from 2011 to 2016, ...