Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic
by
James P. Cousins
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
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. Many Kentuckians doubted his leadership abilities, some questioned his Unitarian beliefs, and others...