 | Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 1950-2000 Subjects: University of Pennsylvania -- History -- 20th century; Community and college -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century; Urban renewal -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century; After World War II, the University of Pennsylvania became one of the world's most celebrated research universities. John L. Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd trace Penn's rise to eminence amid the postwar social, institutional, moral, and civic contexts that shaped American research universities. John L. Puckett is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and coauthor of Dewey's Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform. Mark Frazier Lloyd is Director of the University Archives and Records Center at the University of Pennsylvania. |
