Article: Tradition in a Turbulent Age: Whitman College, 1925-1975.

 
Tradition in a Turbulent Age: Whitman College, 1925-1975 
by G. Thomas Edwards 
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, 2001. Photographs, 
notes, bibliography, index. 633 pages. $29.95 cloth. 

This is one of the best histories of American higher education ever written. Grounded in appropriate secondary works, an extensive collection of sources from the college archives, and numerous oral histories (many of which were conducted by the author), the conclusions are persuasive and presented lucidly. One is struck again and again by the author's fair-mindedness and objectivity when writing about an institution that he has served as a member of the history department ...

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