Bruce A. Kimball is a historian of education and a professor in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at Ohio State University. A noted authority on the history of liberal arts education, he has also published extensively on the history of the professions and professional education in the United States.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Introduction: The Disputed OriginsChapter 3 Section I: Debates in AntiquityChapter 4 Section II: Late Antiquity and Middle Ages: Christian Appropriation, Codification, and Female ImageryChapter 5 Section III: In the modernus University, 1100s -1500Chapter 6 Section IV: The Humanist and Collegiate TraditionsChapter 7 Section V: Humanist, Scholastic, and Sectarian Strains in the Colonial CollegeChapter 8 Section VI: Intellectual and Social Challenges to the College, 1790s-1850sChapter 9 Section VII: Struggle between the University and the College, 1860s-1900sChapter 10 Section VIII: Experimentation and Search for Coherence, 1910s-1930sChapter 11 Section IX: The "Emerging Curricular Blueprint" of the Mid-Twentieth CenturyChapter 12 Section X: Approaching the Past in the New MillenniumChapter 13 Glossary of NamesChapter 14 Index

Indispensable both for its historical depth and its broad range of diverse views on the history - and the future - of liberal education.