Book description
Established in 1789, the University of North Carolina is the oldest
public university in the nation. UNC's reputation as one of the
South's leading institutions has drawn some of the nation's leading
educators and helped it become a model of the modern American
university. However, the school's location in the country's most
conservative region presented certain challenges during the early
1900s, as new ideas of academic freedom and liberalism began to
pervade its educational philosophy. This innovative generation of
professors defined themselves as truth-seekers whose work had the
potential to enact positive social change; they believed it was their
right to choose and cultivate their own curriculum and research in
their efforts to cultivate intellectual and social advancement. In To
Carry the Truth: Academic Freedom at UNC, 1920--1941, Charles J.
Holden examines the growth of UNC during the formative years between
the World Wars, focusing on how the principle of academic freedom led
to UNC's role as an advocate for change in the South.
""A valuable account of how issues of academic freedom
played out at the South's leading institution of higher education
between the World Wars, thereby illuminating both the general history
of academic freedom and of that university."--John T. Kneebone,
author of Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race,
1920-1944" -- John Kneebone
Charles J. Holden, professor of history at St. Mary's College of
Maryland, is the author of In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in
Post--Civil War South Carolina. He lives in Solomons, Maryland.
