On WestSouthwest, a rebroadcast of an interview from earlier this year about the history of higher education and the creation of the American West.
Western Michigan University History Professor James Cousins says when Horace Holley became president of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, America was moving west and looking for new opportunities. Cousins calls it "a unique time in the history of education." Cousins spoke with WMUK's Gordon Evans about his book Horace Holley: Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the early American Republic. The interview originally aired in January.
