Is it any wonder, given my antique academic prejudices, that I approach James Axtell’s book with a jaundiced eye? The author, a professor emeritus at William & Mary, seems to know all there is ...

The author, James Axtell, is the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary. Axtell recently spoke about what made Wilson such a pivotal figure in Princeton’s history and the ...

Or, they'd just go without. That's what higher ed was like during the Middle Ages, as James Axtell tells it in his new book, Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University. Axtell traces the ...

If you don’t count the seven Ph.D. candidates he will continue to advise, the book he’s writing, the two he’s editing on Woodrow Wilson’s educational papers and the office he’ll keep just down the ...

James Axtell, a longtime humanities professor at William and Mary, is also the official historian of Princeton University; among his books is one titled “The Pleasures of Academe.” Jonathan R.

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. In searching almost 110 years of Princeton records, neither James Axtell nor I have found any discussion of including graduate students, ...

James Axtell, who before retirement was William R. Kennan Jr. professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary, made a name for himself first as a pre-eminent expert on American Indian ...