Historic Hillsdale College: Pioneer In Higher Education 1844-1900, Arlan Gilbert

Using scholarship that often crackles with controversy, historian Arlan Gilbert explains why -- since its founding on the western frontier -- Hillsdale College has symbolized freedom and independence while steadfastly reflecting the values of heartland America. By his extensive use of primary sources, Gilbert defines for the first time Hillsdale's major contributions as a pioneer in American higher education. Hillsdale was the first American college to prohibit by charter as a condition of its founding all discrimination based on race, religion or sex. 

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Praise for Historic Hillsdale College:

"A teacher of mine, the great Harry Jaffa, is -- like those who met in Hillsdale in 1853 -- a follower of Lincoln. He has written that there can be no progress without return. Arlan Gilbert, whose retirement I had the honor to interrupt, has laid the ground sublimely for progress by accomplishing the return. We are proud to offer his history of our College as something more even the the history of this fine old place. It is a window, too, into the soul of our nation." - Updated Forward by Larry P. Arrn President of Hillsdale College 

"Arlan Gilbert's thorough and interesting history of the College during six decades of the nineteenth century makes clear the College's repeated readiness to champion causes temporarily unpopular -- its opposition to slavery, its interest in higher education for women, its prolonged attachment to the classical literary curriculum. If later Professor Gilbert gives us another volume on twentieth-century Hillsdale, no doubt he will tell in some detail of the college's resistance to the Behemoth state." - Original Forward by Russel Kirk

"I must commend you to this loving book. It contains no sentimentality (although it has much advocacy of Hillsdale ways); it aspires to the highest standards of scholarship; and it tells a story the depth of which will, perhaps, surprise even the most committed veterans of Hillsdale's recent struggles in the war of ideas." - John Wilson, Department of History, Hillsdale College 

Publisher: Hillsdale College Press K-12 Books
Publication Date: January 1991
Paperback: 274 pages
ISBN: 0-916308-79-0                                                                                                                                       LCCN: 91-072649
Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches