Swarthmore College

This is a bibliography drawn from a Zotero collection maintained by Timothy Burke, Rachel Sagner Buurma, and Andy Hines. It includes works used in the first-year seminar Why College? as well as works on the history of higher education, current policy debates on higher education, intellectual histories of the concept of “liberal arts”, and other materials of interest to the Aydelotte office in its research and ongoing conversation.

Introduction: Commemorating the Sixtieth Anniversary of the President’s Commission Report, “Higher Education for Democracy”
Author – Julie A. Reuben
Introduction: Commemorating the Sixtieth Anniversary of the President’s Commission Report, “Higher Education for Democracy”
Author – Julie A. Reuben
TIME TO STIR: columbia ’68.
Author – Paul Cronin
Reading for reform: the social work of literature in the Progressive Era
Author – Laura R. Fisher
Oberlin, hotbed of abolitionism: college, community, and the fight for freedom and equality in antebellum America
Author – J. Brent Morris
For a Pragmatics of the Useless
Author – Erin Manning
The scholar and the struggle: Lawrence Reddick’s crusade for black history and black power
Author – David A. Varel
Survival schools: the American Indian Movement and community education in the Twin Cities
Author – Julie L. Davis
The Challenge of Blackness: the Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s
Author – Derrick E White
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