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Collegiate Republic offers a compellingly different view of the first generation of college communities founded after the American Revolution. Such histories have usually taken the form of the institutional tale, charting the growth of a single institution and the male minds within it. Focusing on the published and private writings of the families who founded and ran new colleges in antebellum America--including Bowdoin College, Washington College (later Washington and Lee), and Franklin College in Georgia--Margaret Sumner argues that these institutions not only trained white male elites for professions and leadership positions but also were part of a wider interregional network of social laboratories for the new nation. Colleges, and the educational enterprise flourishing around them, provided crucial cultural construction sites where early Americans explored organizing elements of gender, race, and class as they attempted to shape a model society and citizenry fit for a new republic.


Within this experimental world, a diverse group of inhabitants--men and women, white and colored, free and unfree--debated, defined, and promoted social and intellectual standards that were adopted by many living in an expanding nation in need of organizing principles. Priding themselves on the enlightened and purified state of their small communities, the leaders of this world regularly promoted their own minds, behaviors, and communities as authoritative templates for national emulation. Tracking these key figures as they circulate through college structures, professorial parlors, female academies, Liberian settlements, legislative halls, and main streets, achieving some of their cultural goals and failing at many others, Sumners book shows formative American educational principles in action, tracing the interplay between the construction and dissemination of early national knowledge and the creation of cultural standards and social conventions.

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Collegiate RepublicJEFFERSONIAN AMERICA Jan Ellen Lewis Peter S Onuf and - photo 1
Collegiate Republic
JEFFERSONIAN AMERICA
Jan Ellen Lewis,
Peter S. Onuf, and
Andrew OShaughnessy
Editors
Collegiate
Republic
CULTIVATING AN IDEAL SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA
Margaret Sumner
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Charlottesville & London
University of Virginia Press
2014 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
First published 2014
1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sumner, Margaret, 1972
Collegiate republic : cultivating an ideal society in early America / Margaret
Sumner.
pages cm. (Jeffersonian America)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8139-3567-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8139-3568-3
(e-book)
1. Universities and collegesUnited StatesHistory18th century. 2. Universities and collegesUnited StatesHistory19th century. 3. Education, HigherUnited StatesHistory18th century. 4. Education, HigherUnited StatesHistory19th century 5. Education, HigherSocial aspectsUnited States. 6. Education, HigherUnited StatesPhilosophy.
I. Title.
LA227.S86 2014
378.73dc23
2013041171
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
Cultivating the College World The Generous Purpose
CHAPTER TWO
Organizing the College World All Various Nature
CHAPTER THREE
Building the College World An Elegant Sufficiency
CHAPTER FOUR
Working in the College World Ease and Alternate Labor
CHAPTER FIVE
Leaving the College World Gentle Spirits Fly
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
As this project traveled the road from dissertation to book, many people provided me with intellectual and moral support along the way. As my dissertation advisor, Jan Lewis deserves my highest praise and gratitude for her guidance. From our first lunch together in 1999, she has always been eager to discuss my ideas, question my assumptions, listen to my archival adventures, read multiple drafts of conference papers and chapters, and urge me forward with equal helpings of encouragement and insightful criticism. No graduate student could have had a better critic, colleague, and friend than Jan Lewis. I was also very lucky to have the wonderful team of Nancy Hewitt, Ann Fabian, and Scott Sandage serving as my dissertation committee. These scholars were always on hand, or online, with helpful advice and support.
An American Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the American Association of University Women provided me with valuable time for thinking and writing. I am also a grateful recipient of the Benjamin F. Stevens Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Jacob Price Research Fellowship from the William L. Clements Library. I would also like to thank the New Jersey Daughters of the American Republic, the Graduate School at Rutgers University, and The Ohio State University at Marion for providing travel and research funding for this project. A special thanks to Professor Ann Gordon at the Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony at Rutgers University for providing me with numerous research assistantships. Under her careful tutelage, I learned essential archival research and editorial skills while paying the rent. Throughout this project, Ann Gordon has been a mentor, critic, and friend. Thanks also to my fellow research assistants, Kimberly Banks, Lesley Doig, and Ann Pfau, who provided much collegial support as we all worked on our dissertations while working for suffrage. My thanks to all.
Researching a project that spans multiple colleges would have been impossible without the enthusiasm, dedication, and institutional knowledge of a stellar group of college archivists. My deepest thanks to the following archivists and their staff: Sylvia Kennick Brown at Williams College, Chuck Barber at the University of Georgia, Ellen Fladger at Union College, James W. Gerencser at Dickinson College, B. J. Gooch at Transylvania University, Richard H. F. Lindemann at Bowdoin College, and Vaughan Stanley and Tom Camden at Washington and Lee University. Always eager to dig into their vaults for any obscure document or object I requested, and provide me with priceless insider information, these scholar-archivists made my study of multiple sites and multitudes of college family papers much easier and certainly more enjoyable.
I owe a debt of gratitude to the many Rutgers University faculty and staff who assisted and advised me during my graduate years: Paul Clemens, Barbara Baillet, Teresa Delcorso, M. Josephine Diamond, Alison Isenberg, Jennifer Jones, Steven Lawson, James Livingston, Phyllis Mack, Meredith McGill, Dawn Ruskai, and Bonnie Smith. My additional thanks to a brilliant circle of graduate friends who listened with patience and good humor as I talked endlessly about the early college world: Kristen Block, Jackie Castledine, Carmen Khair Gitre, Catherine Howey, Kathleen Keller, Danielle McGuire, Robert Nelson, Amanda Pipkin, Louisa Rice, Margaret Smith, and Emily Zuckerman.
I am lucky to have an equally supportive circle of colleagues at The Ohio State University. My special thanks to John L. Brooke for his enthusiastic encouragement of my work as well as his gracious invitation to share my work with graduate students and fellow early American colleagues at the Ohio Seminar. Colleagues Leslie Alexander, Saul Cornell, Margaret Newell, and Randy Roth also deserve thanks for their enthusiastic and helpful comments about my project. My colleagues at the OSUMarion campus always provided me with generous advice and support when I most needed it. My thanks to James Genova, Derek Heng, Timothy McNiven, Bishun Pandey, and Dean Greg Rose. A special acknowledgement to David Steigerwald, a true mentor whose door was always open, and whose advice was always appreciated. Along with reading chapter drafts, my generous colleagues in the English department at OSUMarionLynda Behan, Sara Crosby, Marcia Dickson, and Cassandra Parentespent much time with me discussing ways to inculcate the virtue of writing, and rewriting, into our work. Our interdisciplinary conversations have greatly enhanced my own approach to teaching, scholarship, and life.
I would also like to thank the early American scholars who read various incarnations of my work as it moved from dissertation to book. Whether on conference panels or over coffee, each of these scholars offered perceptive critiques that were immensely helpful as I revised my manuscript: Catherine Allgor, Jeanne Boydston, Bruce Dorsey, Richard Godbeer, Rodney Hessinger, Nancy Hewitt, Mary Kelley, Cathy Kelly, Martha J. McNamara, Lucia McMahon, Catherine ODonnell Kaplan, and Peter Onuf. To Kyle Roberts, your longtime friendship, constant intellectual support, and extensive working knowledge of evangelical texts were essential to the completion of this project.
For their steadfast support of a seemingly endless project, my family circle deserves much recognition. My loving gratitude to Neil and Bridget Sumner, Colleen Sumner and John Dennison, and William, Heather, and Grace Sumner. Finally, my love and profound thanks to Roy A. Hampton. Your steady love and affection, enthusiastic support, centered companionship, and expert photocopying skills helped me bring this project to a close so I could start creating a new beginning. I am eternally grateful.
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