David B Potts

Biographic Data

ID4590363
NAMEDavid B Potts
GIVEN NAMESDavid B
FAMILY NAMEPotts
SIGNATUREPOTTS D B
AFFILIATIONSUnion College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX2

  • Harvard Observed

    David B Potts, David Potts et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly2000

    Depicting the evolution of 20th-century Harvard in the broader context of national and world events, this text shows how changes in the structure and aspirations of American society led the University to remake itself after World War II, and to do so again after the social upheavals of the Vietnam era. It opens in 1898, when a quick victory in the Spanish-American War made the United States a world power. The narrative spans the presidencies of C…

  • Wesleyan University, 1831-1910

    Bradley J Longfield, David B PottsARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article Wesleyan University, 1831–1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England. By David B. Potts. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. xviii, 383 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-05160-3.) Get access Bradley J. Longfield Bradley J. Longfield University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1709–1710…

  • Gentlemen and Scholars

    David B Potts, W Bruce LeslieARTICLEJournal of American History1994Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Gentlemen and Scholars: College and Community in the “Age of the University,” 1865–1917. By W. Bruce Leslie. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. xx, 284 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-271-00829-6.) Get access David B. Potts David B. Potts Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994,…

  • Wesleyan University, 1831-1910

    Richard M Freeland, David B PottsARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1994Cited by: 3

    An enterprising spirit - Middletown and Methodists an earnest education entrepreneurial strategy - from town to denomination denominational support and influence Methodist professors becoming academic professionals the metropolitan milieu. Appendices: charter of 1831 presidencies enrolments at Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams, 1831-1900

  • Wesleyan University, 1831-1910

    William G Mcloughlin, David B PottsARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1992

  • Baptist Colleges in the Development of American Society, 1812-1861

    David S Webster, David B PottsARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1990Cited by: 1

  • The Town's College

    David B Potts, David M StameshkinARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1988

  • Science and the Ante-Bellum American College

    David B Potts, Stanley M GuralnickARTICLEJournal of American History1976

    Journal Article Science and the Ante-Bellum American College. By Stanley M. Guralnick. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1975. xiv + 227 pp. Appendixes, notes, and index. Paper, $5.00.) Get access David B. Potts David B. Potts Union College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 3, December 1976, Pages 714–715, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887393 Published: 0…

  • Students and the Social History of American Higher Education

    David B Potts, David F AllmendingerARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1975Cited by: 1

  • American Colleges in the Nineteenth Century

    David B PottsARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1971Cited by: 9References: 1

    THE GENERAL CONTOURS of nineteenth-century collegiate development, as found in the histories of American higher education, probably need substantial reexamination and extensive reshaping. Traditionally, colleges associated with various denominations are characterized largely in terms of sect-like religious zeal and are assigned the early nineteenth century as their period of importance. The few monographic studies of late nineteenth-century colle…

  • Social Ethics at Harvard, 1881–1931

    David B PottsCHAPTERSocial Sciences at Harvard,…1965

  • The Prospect Union

    David B PottsARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1962

    D URING the late 188o's and early 1890's American reformers imported from England the techniques of university extension and university settlement. The Prospect Union in Cambridge, Massachusetts, combined both of these new reform methods and was one of the first organizations which applied them to America's social problems. Drawing on the resources of Harvard University, the Union initiated its program of evening instruction and social activities…