Books by Marcia Synnott

By the turn of the 20th century, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants hegemony was endangered by students, many of them Catholic and Jewish immigrants. The newcomers threatened to displace native-born Americans by raising academic standards and winning a disproportionate share of the scholarships. This title analyzes the role of these institutions.

By the turn of the twentieth century, academic nativism had taken root in elite American colleges'specifically, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton