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Author Cousins, James P

Title Horace Holley : Transylvania University and the making of liberal education in the early American republic / James P. Cousins
Published Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 "Great Truths" -- 2 "Term of Severe Trial" -- 3 "The State of Society" -- 4 "A New Era of Literature" -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- 5 "Traces of Vast Design" -- 6 "A Time of Fruitsand Flowers" -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Outspoken New England urbanite Horace Holley (1781-1827) was an unlikely choice to become the president of Transylvania University - the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains. In this definitive biography, James P. Cousins offers fresh perspectives on a seminal yet controversial figure in American religious history and educational life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Holley, Horace, 1781-1827
SUBJECT Holley, Horace, 1781-1827 fast
Subject Transylvania University -- Presidents -- Biography
Transylvania University -- History
SUBJECT Transylvania University fast
Subject College presidents -- United States -- Biography
EDUCATION -- Higher.
College presidents
Presidents
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0813168589
9780813168586
9780813168807
0813168805