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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 ...
A history professor explored his forthcoming book and urged historians to recognize anti-colonialist history narratives in a Feb. 19 webinar. Esmat Elhalaby, a historian of colonialism and assistant ...
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Carolyn Wolfenzon’s new book, Muerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana analyzes the representation ...
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 ...
The name Yale was attributed to the college in 1718 in recognition of a donation of 400 books, a portrait of King George I and cloth goods from Elihu Yale, the step-grandson of New Haven co-founder ...
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, ...