Rethinking Campus Life: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the United States (Historical Studies in Education)

"This edited volume explores the history of student life throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapter authors examine the expanding reach of scholarship on the history of college students; the history of underrepresented students, including black, Latino, and LGBTQ students; and student life at state normal schools and their successors, regional colleges and universities, and at community colleges and evangelical institutions. The book also includes research on drag and gender and on student labor activism, and offers new interpretations of fraternity and sorority life. Collectively, these chapters deepen scholarly understanding of students, the diversity of their experiences at an array of institutions, and the campus lives they built."-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction: Rethinking Campus Life (Christine A. Ogren, Marc A. VanOverbeke)....Pages 1-10 Trends in the Historiography of American College Student Life: Populations, Organizations, and Behaviors (Michael S. Hevel, Heidi A. Jaeckle)....Pages 11-36 “We Are Not So Easily to Be Overcome”: Fraternities on the American College Campus (Nicholas L. Syrett)....Pages 37-60 “Mattie Matix” and Prodigal Princes: A Brief History of Drag on College Campuses from the Nineteenth Century to the 1940s (Margaret A. Nash, Danielle C. Mireles, Amanda Scott-Williams)....Pages 61-90 “Enthusiasm and Mutual Confidence”: Campus Life at State Normal Schools, 1870s–1900s (Christine A. Ogren)....Pages 91-114 Instruction in Living Beautifully: Social Education and Heterosocializing in White College Sororities (Margaret L. Freeman)....Pages 115-139 The Mexican American Movement (Christopher Tudico)....Pages 141-163 Student Activists and Organized Labor (Timothy Reese Cain)....Pages 165-190 New Voices, New Perspectives: Studying the History of Student Life at Community Colleges (Nicholas M. Strohl)....Pages 191-212 Activism, Athletics, and Student Life at State Colleges in the 1950s and 1960s (Marc A. VanOverbeke)....Pages 213-235 Campus Life for Southern Black Students in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Joy Ann Williamson-Lott)....Pages 237-259 Higher (Power) Education: Student Life in Evangelical Institutions (Adam Laats)....Pages 261-281 Conclusion: New Perspectives on Campus Life and Setting the Agenda for Future Research (Christine A. Ogren, Marc A. VanOverbeke)....Pages 283-296 Back Matter ....Pages 297-311 "This edited volume explores the history of student life throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Chapter authors examine the expanding reach of scholarship on the history of college students; the history of underrepresented students, including black, Latino, and LGBTQ students; and student life at state normal schools and their successors, regional colleges and universities, and at community colleges and evangelical institutions. The book also includes research on drag and gender and on student labor activism, and offers new interpretations of fraternity and sorority life. Collectively, these chapters deepen scholarly understanding of students, the diversity of their experiences at an array of institutions, and the campus lives they built."--Back cover