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Amherst in the World

Edited by Martha Saxton
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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Amherst College, a group of scholars and alumni explore the school’s substantial past in this volume. Amherst in the World tells the story of how an institution that was founded to train Protestant ministers began educating new generations of industrialists, bankers, and political leaders with the decline in missionary ambitions after the Civil War. The contributors trace how what was a largely white school throughout the interwar years begins diversifying its student demographics after World War II and the War in Vietnam. The histories told here illuminate how Amherst has contended with slavery, wars, religion, coeducation, science, curriculum, town and gown relations, governance, and funding during its two centuries of existence. Through Amherst’s engagement with educational improvement in light of these historical undulations, it continually affirms both the vitality and the utility of a liberal arts education.
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I: STUDENT BODIES AND SOULS
    • Fulfilling the Founders’ Purpose
    • Remembering Edward Jones
    • Amherst and the Native World
    • Niijima Jō, the Dōshisha, and the Christian Liberal Arts in Meiji Japan
    • Exclusivity, Segregation, and Democracy
    • Jewish Experience at Amherst College
    • Coeducation
    • Creating a Place for Latinidad at an Elite Liberal Arts College
    • Remembering Dunbar
    • Feeding Amherst
  • PART II: THE COLLEGE AND BEYOND
    • “The farthest West shakes hands with the remotest East”
    • “Vesuvius at Home”
    • “Fables of Extinction”
    • Eclipses, Ecology, and Emily Dickinson
    • The “Meiklejohn Affair” Revisited
    • The Amherst Man in the Jazz Age
  • PART III: EMERGENCIES
    • “We are and will be forever Anti-Slavery Men!”
    • “Some of the Sweetest Christians”
    • “Ain’t Gonna Pay for War No More”
    • “A Pervasive and Insistent Disquiet”
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
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Published: 2020
Publisher: Amherst College
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-943184-21-0 (open access)
  • 978-0-943184-20-3 (paper)
Subject
  • History
  • Higher Education
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