Author: SIMON, John Y.
Title: The Politics of the Morrill Act
Description: N.p. Agricultural History, 1963. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff wrappers. 9pp. Near fine. Tight and nice first separate printing of this article by the renowned Ulysses S. Grant scholar, as first published in the scholarly journal "Agricultural History" (Vol. 37, No. 2). The Morrill Act was part of a political endeavor to create agricultural colleges across the U.S. -- begun by Illinois educator Jonathan Baldwin Turner, first proposed before Congress in 1857, passed in 1859 (vetoed by Buchanan), resubmitted in 1861 and finally passed into law by President Lincoln in 1862. .

Keywords: Americana


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