“…American Collegiate Populations is an exhaustive and definitive study of the membership of American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century. Colin B. Burke explores the questions of who went, who stayed and where they came from, presenting as answers to these questions a mass of new data put together in an original and interpretive manner…”

“…Now in this brilliant and thoroughly accessible new book Colin McGinn takes a provocative position on this perplexing problem. …”