About every other day, I walk up to a short, old building made of Ithaca bluestone, quarried from the bottom of the slope. It’s an attractive building, named after a lover of architecture, but usually ...

In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act and set off an education revolution. The Act established land-grant colleges across the country, democratizing ...

The University of Missouri has sold most of the remaining land taken from the Osage Nation two centuries ago to fund the then-fledgling university, according to recently discovered records. In one of ...

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas, Sept. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Prairie View A&M University marks the 135 th anniversary of the Second Morrill Act of 1890, landmark legislation that required states to establish ...

Land-Grant Colleges and the Pre-Modern Era of American Higher Education, 1850-1890 / Roger L. Geiger -- Transnational Exchanges of Agricultural Scientific Thought from the Morrill Act through the ...