Review: T homas W. Simpson. American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867–1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Authors

Ronit Y. Stahl

Keywords

Mormonism, education, universities, purpose, Larry Cuban

Abstract

“Good for what? Good for whom?” It’s been a long time since I took historian of education Larry Cuban’s “Good Schools” class, but I will never forget the pair of questions he asked every meeting, about every reading. And it’s these two questions, “Good for what? Good for whom,” that I kept returning to as I read Thomas W. Simpson’s American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867–1940. For whom were American universities good? For what purposes? Or, more specifically, “For which Mormons did American universities serve what purposes to what ends?”

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Stahl, Ronit Y. (2019) "Review: T homas W. Simpson. American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867–1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 15.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol6/iss1/15