Contents -- The Initial Reception of MIT, 1860s-1880s -- Noah Porter Revisited -- For Education and Employment: The American Federation of Teachers and Academic Freedom, 1926-1941 -- Conservatism Goes to College: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in the Rise of Conservative Student Networks -- Nicholas Murray Butler, James McKeen Cattell, and the Educational Review: Footnote to a Famous Feud -- Selected Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education -- Contributors