The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education

Research and Relevant Knowledge; 1: Origins of the Federal Research Economy; 2: Research Universities in the Postwar Era, 1945-1957; 3: The Development of Universities in the Postwar Era; 4: Private Foundations and the Research Universities, 1945-1960; 5: University Advancement from the Postwar Era to the 1960s; 6: The Transformation of Federal Research Support in the Sputnik Era; 7: The Golden Age on Campus: The Research Universities in the 1960s; 8: Dissolution of a Consensus; 9: Surviving the Seventies; 10: The New Era of the 1980s