Wesleyan University, 1910-1970: Academic Ambition and Middle-Class America

Winner of the Homer D. Babbidge Jr. (2016)

In Wesleyan University, 1910–1970, David B. Potts presents an engaging story that includes a measured departure from denominational identity, an enterprising acquisition of fabulous wealth, and a burst of enthusiastic aspirations that initiated an era of financial stress. Threaded through these episodes is a commitment to social service that is rooted in Methodism and clothed in more humanistic garb after World War II.

Potts gives an unprecedented le...