Dwayne Cox and William Morison trace the University of Louisville’s two-hundred-year path from an 18th-century charter to a modern research university. The story runs from the 1798 founding of Jefferson Seminary to the 1998 opening of Papa John’s Stadium. Along the way came early failed attempts at a liberal arts college and a long, uneasy union of separate professional schools.
The authors also detail Louisville Municipal College, U of L’s segregation-era division for Black students, and the political fights over its shift from a private to a state-supported institution. It’s an unusually candid institutional history, warts included.
Published 1999
256 pages
$30.00