Contents
Introduction: Amherst in the World | Martha Saxton
Part I: Student Bodies and Souls
Fulfilling the Founders’ Purpose: The Religious Careers of Early Amherst College Graduates | Gary J. Kornblith
Remembering Edward Jones: First Black Graduate, Missionary Hero, “Genteel Young Man of Excellent Disposition” | David W. Wills
Amherst and the Native World | Frederick E. Hoxie
Niijima Jō, the Dōshisha, and the Christian Liberal Arts in Meiji Japan | Trent Maxey
Exclusivity, Segregation, and Democracy: Amherst College and Its Fraternities | Nicholas L. Syrett
Jewish Experience at Amherst College | Wendy H. Bergoffen
Coeducation: The Unanticipated Revolution | Martha Saxton
Creating a Place for Latinidad at an Elite Liberal Arts College: Amherst College, the 1970s through Today | Rick López
Remembering Dunbar: Amherst College and African American Education in Washington, DC | Matthew Alexander Randolph
Feeding Amherst | Daniel Levinson Wilk
Part II: The College and Beyond
“The farthest West shakes hands with the remotest East:” Amherst College, China, and Collegiate Cosmopolitanism in the Nineteenth Century | K. Ian Shin
“Vesuvius at Home”: Emily Dickinson, Amherst, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture | David S. Reynolds
“Fables of Extinction”: Geologist Edward Hitchcock and the Literary Response to Darwin | Jane F. Thrailkill
Eclipses, Ecology, and Emily Dickinson: The Todds of Amherst | Julie Dobrow
The “Meiklejohn Affair” Revisited: Amherst and the World in the Early Twentieth Century | Richard F. Teichgraeber III
The Amherst Man in the Jazz Age | Debby Applegate
Part III: Emergencies
“We are and will be forever Anti-Slavery Men!”: Student Abolitionists and Subversive Politics at Amherst College, 1833–1841 | Michael E. Jirik
“Some of the Sweetest Christians”: The Wartime Education of Amherst’s Boys in Blue | Bruce Laurie
“Ain’t Gonna Pay for War No More”: Taxes, Resistance, and Antiwar Activism in the Pioneer Valley and Beyond | Molly Michelmore
“A Pervasive and Insistent Disquiet”: Amherst College in the 1960s | Christian G. Appy
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments