Introduction: A look back at Jefferson's forward-looking mission for the university -- From academy to college to university : the prehistory of the University of Virginia / J. Jefferson Looney -- American education and Atlantic circulations / Neven Leddy -- Premature men : honor, Jefferson, and the College of William & Mary / Alan Taylor -- "Chastising a servant for his insolence" : the case of the Butter Bully / Ervin L. Jordan Jr. -- Avoiding "the appearance of dictating to the Assembly" : Thomas Jefferson and the establishment of the University of Virginia, 1818-1819 / Ellen Hickman -- From academy to academical village : Thomas Jefferson's architectural designs for public education / Joseph Michael Lasala -- Elevating Jefferson's high-flying vision for his last Delorme Dome Project at the University of Virginia's Rotunda / Douglas J. Harnsberger -- The liberty and tyranny of Jefferson's academical village / Maurie D. McInnis -- Medical education in the nineteenth century : Jefferson and Flexner revisited / Robert S. Gibson -- "At all times his chosen companions" : some notes on what books meant to Thomas Jefferson / Jurretta Jordan Heckscher -- Forming the body of a library based upon the "illimitable freedom of the human mind" / Endrina Tay -- Reading law in the early republic : legal education in the age of Jefferson / James P. Ambuske and Randall Flaherty -- God and man at the University of Virginia / Cameron Addis -- "The powers of debate should be sedulously cultivated" : the importance of eloquence in early American education and the University of Virginia / Carolyn Eastman -- From "ancients and axioms" to "every branch of science" : Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of liberal education / Johann N. Neem -- Final thoughts: The university survives.
Summary:
"The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University examines the development of one of America's oldest and preeminent educational institutions from a wide range of perspectives, considering aspects such as Jefferson's linked intellectual and architectural visions, the often unruly students, the important roles of enslaved people, and the place of the University of Virginia in the context of early American education. The book situates the creation of the university in the context of developments in education in the early republic and the revolutionary changes to which the university contributed"-- Provided by publisher.
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