Brown: The History of an Idea

by Ted Widmer

Book Overview

Founded in 1636, essentially as a refuge for outcasts from Massachusetts, the colony of Rhode Island was unusually open-minded, leading Massachusetts Puritan Cotton Mather to refer to it as "the latrina [or sewer] of New England." The sixth of the Ivy League universities to be founded, in 1764, Brown accepted students early on regardless of religious affiliation, and in 1969 adopted a student-proposed "New Curriculum," allowing students to structure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500252165
• ISBN13: 9780500252161
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 8.1"