Volume Twenty-Five of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the nineteenth century and three historical perspectives on topics of contemporary concern

Northern Piety and Southern Honor: Alva Woods and the Problem of Discipline at the University of Alabama, 1831-1837, Nationalist Science and International Academic Travel in the Early Nineteenth Century: Geological Surveys and Global Economics, 1800-1840, Shaping Patent Policy: The National Research Council and the Universities from World War I to the 1960s, The Academic Work Ethic at Yale, 1939-1982, REVIEW ESSAYS, Nineteenth-Century Coeds and the Value of an "Identified" Life, "Time, Place, and Character": The American College and University Presidency in the Late Twentieth Century, Selected Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education, Contributors