Overview :In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing to... Read More
Overview :An essential history of the modern research university When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom... Read More
Overview :In the past thirty years historians have come to realize that the shape and temper of early America was determined as much by its Indian nat... Read More
Overview :This volume comprises a new collection of essays--four previously unpublished--by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the... Read More
Overview :In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions. ... Read More
Overview :In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result o... Read More
Overview :Using the human life cycle as an organizational framework, Axtell has gathered a broad range of 17th and 18th century European documentation... Read More
Overview :The School Upon a Hill is the first attempt to portray a view of education that, in the author's words, "enables us to see the educational p... Read More
Overview :Colonial North America was not only a battleground for furs and land, but also for allegiances and even souls. In the three-sided struggle f... Read More
Overview :In The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson, James Axtell brings together essays by eight leading historians and one historically minded po... Read More