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Andrew Delbanco. Andrew H. Delbanco (born 1952) is an American writer and professor. He is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University and the president of the Teagle Foundation. He is the author of many books, including The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the ...
Andrew Delbanco, winner of the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates, is the author of College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be (2012), Melville: His World and Work (2005), The Death of Satan (1995), Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now (1997), The Real American Dream (1999), and The Puritan Ordeal (1989), among other books.
Andrew Delbanco. Andrew Delbanco is Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies, president of the Teagle Foundation, and past president (2021-22) of the Society of American Historians. His recent book The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War (Penguin Press, 2018 ...
Jul 12, 2012 · DELBANCO I didn't know who paid for this policy. I didn't know how we funded these students. I didn't know who invented it, whether other institutions did the same thing. So I became interested in higher education and many years later, this book, I guess, is the result, one purpose of which is to speak to the academic community and suggest that those of us in it need to understand our ...
Dec 22, 2012 · Delbanco is not the first to express the fear that the education on offer is getting worse, but at least one earlier author was willing to state what was being lost. In 1954, C. S. Lewis pointed out that of all the centuries since the fall of Rome the one most likely to find a son who could not read his father’s copy of Virgil’s Aeneid was the 20th.
- Geoffrey M. Vaughan
- gvaughan@assumption.edu
- 2013
In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities ...
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Jun 8, 2012 · Delbanco stresses that “one of the insights at the core of the college idea” is the notion that “to serve others is to serve oneself by providing a sense of purpose, thereby countering the ...
