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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Alan I Marcus
- Part One: Whose University?
- 1. Men in the Food Lab, Women in the Engine Shop: Gendered Stereotype Breaking in Land-Grant Technical Programs / Amy Sue Bix
- 2. What's in a Name?: Students and Alumni and the Meaning of Home Economics / Gwen Kay
- 3. The 1890 Land-Grant Colleges: From the New Deal to the Black Farmers' Class-Action Lawsuit, 1930s-2010s / Valerie Grim
- Part Two: From National to Local
- 4. The Evolution of a Public Research System: The Economic Research Service and the Land-Grant Universities / Anne B. Effland
- 5. The New Students: The GI Bill and Housing at Iowa State / David L. Harmon
- 6. The Purposes of Higher Education: The Morrill Act and Military Science / Donald A. Downs
- 7. Taking Off: National Security, Identity, and Aerospace Engineering at Land-Grant Universities, 1957-1972 / Erinn McComb
- Part Three: Modern Food, Modern Society
- 8. Fruit Cocktail, Rations, and By-Products: The University of California-Berkeley and Modern Food / Stephanie Statz
- 9. "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy": Land-Grant Social Scientists and Modernity from the Country Life Movement to the Cold War / Hamilton Cravens
- Part Four: The New Agriculture
- 10. "Havens for Golf-Turf Science": New Agrarians and the Land-Grant Legacy / Melissa Walker
- 11. The Sustainable Agriculture Movement and Land-Grant Universities: A Contentious History / Robert C. McMath
- 12. Teaching Agricultural History at Land-Grant Institutions / R. Douglas Hurt
- Conclusion / Alan I Marcus
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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