Description: Completing a comprehensive history of America's land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Review Quotes: "This collection of essays by leading scholars in their respective fields demonstrates the centrality of land-grant institutions for the United States during the last hundred years. Although the essays included in this volume are a must for historians of twentieth-century US higher education, the range of issues documented and analyzed will also make the volume extremely valuable to historians in a variety of other fields: military history, gender studies, the history of disciplines, and agricultural history, to name only some. Marcus has done a fine job of editing this diverse collection."
--Marc Rothenberg, editor of The Papers of Joseph Henry and The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia