W. Bruce Leslie

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Academic Freedom and Politics(13), Race, History, and American Society(6), Higher Education Governance and Development(5), Higher Education Research Studies(4), Catholicism and Religious Studies(4)

Publications52 total

Symposium Report
2020
<i>Transforming the Urban University: Northeastern, 1996–2006</i>. By Richard M. Freeland. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 229. $69.95 cloth.)
The New England Quarterly·2019Open Access
The Liberal Pan-Protestant Moment and the Emergence of the University
2018
Horace Holley: Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic
The New England Quarterly·2017
The Surprising History of the Post-World War II State Teachers College
2017
Roger L. Geiger, The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), 551 pp. ISBN: 9780691149394
Oxford University Press eBooks·2016· 1 cited
The efficacy of reading using the physical response technique in second language learning
Cadernos de Linguística e Teoria da Literatura·2016· 1 cited
Britain's White Paper: Current Developments
International Higher Education·2015Open Access
Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War
Journal of American History·2013· 2 cited
The curious tale of liberal education, professional training and the American college, 1880–1910
History of Education·2010· 8 cited
The Building Blocks of SUNY
State University of New York Press eBooks·2010
SUNY at Sixty: The Promise of the State University of New York.
2010· 5 cited
The College "Y": Student Religion in the Era of Secularization. By David P. Setran. (New York: Palgrave, 2007. xii, 315 pp. Cloth, $79.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-6124-2. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-1-4039-6125-9.)
Journal of American History·2008
Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
History Reviews of New Books·2006· 138 cited
Michigan Agricultural College: The Evolution of a Land-Grant Philosophy, 1855-1925 by Keith R. Widder
Michigan Historical Review·2006
Paul R. Deslandes. Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850–1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.
History of Education Quarterly·2006· 1 cited
John R. Thelin, <i>A History of American Higher Education</i> (Baltimore &amp; London: Johns Hopkins University, 2004). Pp. xxii+362. 0 8018 7855 1 (hbk.) 0 8018 8004 1 (pbk.).
Journal of American Studies·2005
Lynn Hudson Parsons, interviewed by Bruce Leslie
SUNY Digital Repository Support (State University of New York System)·2005
Colin Barr. Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845–1865. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. 344 pp. Paper $30.00.
History of Education Quarterly·2004
Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920
The Journal of Southern History·2003· 11 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Kenneth P. O’Brien(3), David B. Potts(2), John R. Thelin(2), John F. Halsey(2), Jacob Tynan(2), Philip Gleason(1), Peter Searby(1), Robert A. Schwartz(1), William J. Barber(1), David F. Allmendinger(1), Michael J. Dennis(1), Burton J. Bledstein(1), John B. Clark(1), Queensland(1), David O. Levine(1), Harold S. Wechsler(1), Harold F. Williamson(1), Payson S. Wild(1), Maria Helena Lott Lage(1), Victor Hackett(1)