Synopses & Reviews
Today George Peabody College is a part of Vanderbilt University, as it has been since its merger in 1979. Its prior history was rich and complex. In this book, Paul Conkin, author of the award-winning history of Vanderbilt, Gone with the Ivy, tells the story of Peabody's many lives, of its successes and failures, and of its many colorful leaders and professors.
It all began as a small frontier academy in 1785. The institution that would become Peabody experienced its first reinvention two decades later as it became Cumberland College, and then, in 1826, the University of Nashville. The University maintained an elite undergraduate college until 1850, and, despite the success of its medical school and a military institute, it failed in three subsequent efforts to restart its undergraduate program.
Review
Conkin adroitly places each rebirth of Peabody in historical context, reflecting the tangled history of higher education in the United States.
--History of Education Quarterly
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-429) and index.
Synopsis
Today George Peabody College is a part of Vanderbilt University, as it has been since its merger in 1979. Its prior history was rich and complex. In this book, Paul Conkin, author of the award-winning history of Vanderbilt, Gone with the Ivy, tells the story of Peabody's many lives, of its successes and failures, and of its many colorful leaders and professors.
It all began as a small frontier academy in 1785. The institution that would become Peabody experienced its first reinvention two decades later as it became Cumberland College, and then, in 1826, the University of Nashville. The University maintained an elite undergraduate college until 1850, and, despite the success of its medical school and a military institute, it failed in three subsequent efforts to restart its undergraduate program.
About the Author
Paul K. Conkin is Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University and author of many books, including The Southern Agrarians, recently issued in a new paperback edition by Vanderbilt University Press.
Table of Contents
Davidson Academy and Cumberland College -- The educational mission of Philip Lindsley -- Princeton West -- Crisis years for the University of Nashville, 1850-1875 -- The State Normal College of Tennessee, 1875-1887 -- Peabody Normal College, 1888-1911 -- The long and painful birth of George Peabody College for Teachers, 1897-1910 -- Creating the George Peabody campus, 1911-1930 -- The academic side, 1914-1930 -- Depression and war, 1930-1945 -- The Peabody of Henry H. Hill -- A troubled decade, 1961-1972 -- Merger -- Peabody as a Vanderbilt college.