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  1. Regional Pride and Prejudice: Higher Education in the Western States

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, May 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor John R. Thelin

  2. John R. Thelin. Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 384 pp. Paper $29.95.

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, May 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor John R. Thelin

  3. Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education ed. by John R. Thelin

    Article • The Review of Higher Education, January 2015, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  4. Philanthropy and American Higher Education

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John R. Thelin

  5. Numbers, Please!

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, May 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor John R. Thelin

  6. Success and Excess: The Contours and Character of American Higher Education Since 1960

    Article • Society, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John R. Thelin

  7. Southern Higher Education History: A Synthesis and New Directions for Research

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John R. Thelin

  8. College Sports Since World War II - Lane Demas, Integrating the Gridiron: Black Civil Rights and American College Football. New Brunswick, NJ and London: The Rutgers University Press, 2010. 180 pp. hardback. - Kurt Edward Kemp...

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, August 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor John R. Thelin

  9. Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform (review)

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, January 2011, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  10. Twentieth-Century Higher Education: Elite to Mass to Universal (review)

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, January 2011, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  11. John B. Boles. University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. 328 pp. Cloth $35.00.

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, November 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor John R. Thelin

  12. Blake Gumprecht. The American College Town. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. 448 pp. Cloth $34.95.

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, August 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor John R. Thelin

  13. College Students and the Curriculum: The Fantastic Voyage of Higher Education, 1636 to the Present

    Article • NACADA Journal, September 2009, National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)

    Professor John R. Thelin

  14. Archives and the Cure for Institutional Amnesia: College and University Saga as Part of the Campus Memory

    Article • Journal of Archival Organization, May 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John R. Thelin

  15. The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present (review)

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, January 2009, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  16. Douglas J. Slawson. The Department of Education Battle, 1918–1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. 352 pp. Cloth $43.00.

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, May 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor John R. Thelin

  17. Nannerl O. Keohane. Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 284 pp. Cloth $24.95.

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, February 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor John R. Thelin

  18. Access and Excess: Selective College Admissions in Historical Perspective

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, January 2008, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  19. The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation

    Article • Journal of College Student Development, January 2008, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  20. Campus Life Revealed: Tracking Down the Rich Resources of American Collegiate Fiction

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, January 2008, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  21. Sports Programs and Educational Institutions in the United States: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

    Article • Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John R. Thelin

  22. Foundations of Qt Development

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John R. Thelin

  23. Speaking of Higher Education: The Academic's Book of Quotations (review)

    Article • The Review of Higher Education, January 2006, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  24. John R. Thelin, A History of American Higher Education (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University, 2004). Pp. xxii+362. 0 8018 7855 1 (hbk.) 0 8018 8004 1 (pbk.).

    Article • Journal of American Studies, April 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor John R. Thelin

  25. Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values (review)

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, January 2005, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  26. Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning (review)

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, January 2004, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  27. A History of American Higher Education

    Article • History Reviews of New Books, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John R. Thelin

  28. The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University (review)

    Article • The Review of Higher Education, January 2003, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  29. The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967. Volume 1: Academic Triumphs

    Article • Academe, January 2003, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  30. Reviews of Books:Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University Morton Keller, Phyllis Keller

    Article • The American Historical Review, December 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John R. Thelin

  31. Higher Education's Best-Made Plans: A Historical Perspective

    Article • The Review of Higher Education, January 2002, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  32. Academics on Athletics

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, January 2002, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  33. The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan

    Article • Journal of American History, September 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John R. Thelin

  34. Campus and Community: A World Turned Inside Out?

    Article • The Review of Higher Education, January 2001, Project Muse

    Professor John R. Thelin

  35. Good Sports? Historical Perspective on the Political Economy of Intercollegiate Athletics in the Era of Title IX, 1972-1997

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, July 2000, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  36. Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthropy and Southern Black Education, 1902-1930

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 2000, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  37. The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era.

    Article • Journal of American History, December 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John R. Thelin

  38. The Idea of a University: John Henry Newman.

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, September 1997, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  39. Zealotry and Academic Freedom: A Legal and Historical Perspective

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1997, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  40. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality

    Article • Academe, January 1997, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  41. Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1996, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  42. Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1996, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  43. Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics.

    Article • The American Historical Review, October 1995, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  44. Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics.

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, September 1995, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  45. Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics.

    Article • Journal of American History, September 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John R. Thelin

  46. The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949.

    Article • The Journal of Southern History, February 1995, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  47. Research and Relevant Knowledge: American Research Universities since World War II.

    Article • The American Historical Review, February 1995, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  48. Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics

    Article • Academe, January 1995, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  49. Fundamental Development of the Social Sciences: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the United States Social Science Research Council

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1995, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  50. The conceptual clash of liberal education and public policy

    Article • New Directions for Higher Education, January 1994, Wiley

    Professor John R. Thelin

  51. Academia's Golden Age: Universities in Massachusetts, 1945-1970.

    Article • The American Historical Review, October 1993, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  52. The Uneasy Public Policy Triangle in Higher Education: Quality, Diversity, and Budgetary Efficiency.

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, March 1993, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  53. Book reviews

    Article • Higher Education, January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John R. Thelin

  54. International and Historical Roots of American Higher Education.

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, November 1992, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  55. Left Outs and Left Overs: The Limits of Education and Social Reform since 1890

    Article • Reviews in American History, June 1992, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  56. The Curriculum Crusades and the Conservative Backlash

    Article • Change The Magazine of Higher Learning, February 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John R. Thelin

  57. The Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960-1980

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1992, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  58. The numbers game: The statistical heritage in intercollegiate athletics

    Article • New Directions for Institutional Research, January 1992, Wiley

    Professor John R. Thelin

  59. The Character of American Higher Education and Intercollegiate Sport.

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, May 1991, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  60. The Old College Try: Balancing Academics and Athletics in Higher Education

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1991, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  61. And Sadly Teach: Teacher Education and Professionalization in American Culture

    Article • Academe, January 1990, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  62. Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present.

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, March 1989, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  63. Reconstructing American Education

    Article • Academe, January 1988, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  64. The Emergence of the American University

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1987, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  65. New School: A History of the New School for Social Research

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1987, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  66. Selecting America's Brightest and Best

    Article • Educational Studies, September 1986, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John R. Thelin

  67. Book reviews

    Article • Higher Education, June 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John R. Thelin

  68. Higher Education and Its Useful Past: Applied History in Research and Planning

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, July 1984, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  69. Cliometrics and the colleges: The campus condition, 1880 to 1910

    Article • Research in Higher Education, January 1984, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John R. Thelin

  70. Old Dartmouth on Trial: The Transformation of the Academic Community in Nineteenth-Century America

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, January 1984, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  71. Higher Education and Its Useful Past: Applied History in Research and Planning by John R. Thelin. Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Article • Change The Magazine of Higher Learning, April 1983, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John R. Thelin

  72. THE PAPER CHASE: CHARTERS AND THE COLLEGES

    Article • The Review of Education, March 1983, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John R. Thelin

  73. Book Review Section 3

    Article • Educational Studies, September 1982, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John R. Thelin

  74. BRINGING THE INDEPENDENT SECTOR INTO STATEWIDE HIGHER EDUCATION PLANNING

    Article • Policy Studies Journal, September 1981, Wiley

    Professor John R. Thelin

  75. Tales Out of School: Exposes of Elite Education

    Article • Educational Studies, September 1978, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John R. Thelin

  76. “Niceness” and Professional Education

    Article • The Educational Forum, March 1978, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John R. Thelin

  77. The American University as Gatekeeper

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1978, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  78. California and the Colleges, Part 2

    Article • California History, October 1977, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  79. California and the Colleges

    Article • California History, July 1977, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  80. Looking for the Lone Star Legacy: Higher Education in Texas

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1977, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  81. Life and Learning in Southern California: Private Colleges in the Popular Culture

    Article • History of Education Quarterly, January 1975, JSTOR

    Professor John R. Thelin

  82. Postsecondary Curriculum

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor John R. Thelin

  83. Postsecondary Curriculum, History of

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor John R. Thelin

  84. College Athletics

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John R. Thelin