Michigan Agricultural College: The Evolution of a Land-Grant Philosophy 1855–1925

Michigan Agricultural College: The Evolution of a Land-Grant Philosophy 1855–1925 by Keith R. Widder 

SALE BOOK! Long before it became Michigan State University, it was America’s premier land-grant institution, and vintage photographs profusely illustrate this saga. From the school’s founding in 1855, and for the next seventy years that are discussed in this thick volume, the institution struggled to find itself and, in the process, helped to invent the notion of what it means to be a university "for the people."

(Michigan State University Press, hardcover, 9” x 11”, 547 pages, 2004)