This weekend I am reading In the Company of Educated Women by Barbara Miller Solomon.  Though published in 1985, Solomon’s volume remains the standard survey of the history of (mostly white) women’s higher education in the United States.  It is briskly written and pleasant to read, and its narrative is comfortingly familiar to anyone who has taught the survey using a recent edition of any multi-authored textbook, because textbook sections that deal with women’s lives and aspirations clearly draw from this important work. Solomon rings the changes from Republican motherhood to the moral reformer to the middle-class daughter to the Read more