2000-01 Thomas Bonner Award

In the competition for books published in 2000 and 2001, the prize was awarded to The Sacred and the Secular University, published by Princeton University Press in 2000. Co-authors John H. Roberts and James Turner examine the transformation that colleges and universities in the United States underwent between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. They identify the forces and events that dissolved the Protestant framework of learning, with particular attention to the role that study of sciences and of humanities played in establishing a new secularized curriculum and the modern university.