Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time; Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States; and Community and Social Change in America; all published by Johns Hopkins.
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American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005
Documenting the National Discourse
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Intellect and Public Life
Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States
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New York Intellect
A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time
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