Robert A. McCaughey – Bibliography 2025
1965
“The Flood Tide of Anti-Business Rhetoric in America: Babbitt Before the Bar,” Masters thesis submitted to History Department, University of North Carolina , in fulfillment of MA degree in American Studies.
1969
“Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864: The Last Federalist,” doctoral dissertation submitted to Harvard University History Department, August 1969. Awarded departmental prize for best dissertation in British or American History, 1970.
1970
“The Usable Past: The Harvard College Rebellion of 1834,” The William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 11, No. 3, (Spring 1970), 587-618.
1971
review of Eric Ashby, The Rise of the Student Estate in Britain, The Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 86 No.4, December 1971.
1973
“From Town to City: Boston in the 1820s,” The Political Science Quarterly Vol. 88, No.2 (June 1973), 191-213
Review of Hugh Hawkins, Between Harvard and America: The Educational Leadership of Charles W. Eliot, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 88, No. 2 (June 1973)
1974
Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864: The Last Federalist (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974)
“American Political Institutions After Watergate – A Discussion,” The Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 89, No.4 9inter 1974-75), 713-749.
“The Transformation of American Academic Life: Harvard University, 1821-1892,” Perspectives in American History, Vol 8, 239-332.
Review of Dorothy Ross G. Stanley Hall: The Psychologist as Prophet and Ray Allen Billington, Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher , The Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 89, No. 1 (March 1974)
1975
A Statistical Profile of the Barnard College Faculty, 1900-1974 (New York: Barnard College, 1975)
1976
“American University Teachers and Opposition to the Vietnam War,” Minerva, Vol. 14, No.3 (Autumn 1976), 307-329.
1978
Review of Roberta Frankfurt, Collegiate Women: Domesticity and Career in Turn-of-the-Century America
1979
Review of Bruce Kuklick, The Rise of American Philosophy: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930, Minerva, Vol. 16, No.1 (Spring 1979)
Review of Carl Diehl, Americans and German Scholarship 1770-1870, Minerva, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1979)
“The Permanent Revolution: An Assessment of the Current State of International Studies in American Universities,” a commissioned report to the Ford Foundation, 1979
“Four Academic Ambassadors: International Studies and the American University Before the Second World War,” Perspectives in American History, Vol 12, 1979, 561-607
1980
“In the Land of the Blind: American International Studies in the 1930s,” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Arts and Science, Vol. 449, Issue 1 (May 1980),1-16.
“The Current State of International Studies in American Universities: Special Consideration Reconsidered,” The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 51, Issue 4 (1980), 381-399.
1981
Review of Ronald Story, The Forging of an Aristocracy: Harvard and the Boston Upper Class, 1800-1870,
Change, Vol. 13, No.6 (1981)
1984
“International Studies and General Education: The Alliance Yet to Be,” Liberal Education, Vol. 70, no. 4 (Winter 1984), 343-374
“American International Studies Before World War II,” Perspectives in American History (1984).
International Studies and Academic Enterprise: A Chapter in the Enclosure of American Learning (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984)
1987
[With John A. Garraty as lead author], The American Nation, 6th edition (New York: Harper Collins, 1987]
1989
“Shaking Things Up at Chicago,” a review of a biography by Harry Ashmore of Robert Hutchins, The New York Times Book Review,” September 3, 1989.
1992
“Why Research and Teaching Can Coexist,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 5, 1992
Academic Profiles: The Faculty of Barnard College, Columbia University, 1991-92 (New York: Barnard College, 1992)
Review of Jaroslav Pelikan, The Idea of the University: A Rexamination, American Historical Review, Vol. 98, No. 1 9 (February 1993), 118-19.
1993
“But Can They Teach: In Praise of College professors Who Publish,” Teachers College Record, Vol. 95. No. 2 (Winter 1993)
1994
Scholars and Teachers: The Faculties of Select Liberal Arts Colleges and Their Place in American Higher Learning (The Mellon Foundation, 1994)
2000
Review of The Prize Game: Lawful Looting on the High Seas in the Days of Fighting Sail, Long Island Historical Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer 2000) ”
2003
Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003)
2004
“The Education of Alexander Hamilton,” The New-York Journal of American History, 2004
2005
“Maritime History as World History,” The Historian, Vol. 67, issue No. 4 (Winter 2005)
2011
[Talk] — “A Usable Past: International Studies Before the Fall,” NEH Seminar/ Columbia/Academic Commons, 2011
2013
[Talk] — “Columbia College and the Gibbs Affair: The Last Stand of New York Knickerbockerdom,” Henry Bellows Lecture, All Souls Church, New York City, October 20, 2013
[Talk] — “Islam in the Columbia Curriculum,” Columbia University Seminar on Religion and Writing,
January 31, 2013
[Talk] — “A History of College Histories,” Barnard Alumnae Club of Philadelphia, April 24, 2013
2014
A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)
“Columbia Engineering at 150,” Columbia Engineering Magazine, November 2014
[Lecture] — “A Lever Long Enough,” The Annual Archimedes Lecture to faculty and alumni of Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, February 18, 2014
2015
[Talk] — “A Tale of Two Cities: Or, Guess Who’s Coming to Barnard,“ University Seminar on the History of Columbia University, March 14, 2015
2019
A College of Her Own: The History of Barnard (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019)
2020
“Still Here: Change and Persistence in the Place of the Liberal Arts in American Higher Education,”
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — https://mellon.org/resources/news/articles/still-here-change-and-persistence-place-liberal-arts-american-higher-education/
2024
[Talk] – with Rebecca Korbin — “Columbia’s Seven Ages – A Conversation with Columbia’s Deans,”
October 23, 2024.
Works in Progress
2nd edition of Stand, Columbia, with five new chapters encompassing the Bollinger presidency
Columbia by Other Means: A History of Columbia’s School of General Studies
Last updated, March 1, 2025