Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities.

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Introduction: Foundations in History: New Possibilities for Scholarship and Practice /Ellen Condliffe Lagemann Part I. Foundations as Organizations 1. Resolving the Dilemmas of Democratic Governance: The Historical Development of Trusteeship in America, 1636-1996 /Peter Dobkin Hall 2. Foundations in the American Polity, 1900-1950 /David Hammack 3. Private Foundations as Public Institutions: Regulation, Professionalization, and the Redefinition of Organized Philanthropy /Peter Frumkin Part II. Case Studies in Early Twentieth Century Foundation Philanthropy 4. Constructing a New Political Economy: Philanthropy, Institution-Building, and Consumer Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century /Meg Jacobs 5. Selling the Public on Public Health: The Commonwealth and Milbank Health Demonstrations and the Meaning of Community Health Education /Elizabeth Toon 6. Constructing the Normal Child: The Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Science of Child Development, 1918-1940 /Julia Grant 7. Mary van Kleeck of the Russell Sage Foundation: Religion, Social Science, and the Ironies of Parasitic Modernity /Guy Alchon Part III: Foundations and Recent Social Memory 8. The Ford Foundation and Philanthropic Activism in the 1960s /Alice O'Connor 9. The Ford Foundation's War on Poverty: Private Philanthropy and Race Relations in New York City, 1948-1968 /Gregory K. Raynor 10. Grassrooting the System: The Development and Impact of Social Movement Philanthropy, 1953-1990 /J. Craig Jenkins and Abigail Halcli 11. When Grantees Become Grantors: Accountability, Democracy, and Social Movement Philanthropy /Susan Ostrander 12. The Ford Foundation and Women's Studies in American Higher Education: Seeds of Change /Rosa Proietto Part IV: Writing the History of Foundations 13. Going for Broke: The Historian's Commitment to Philanthropy /Barry D. Karl 14. In Search of the Ford Foundation /Richard Magat 15. The History of Philanthropy as Life-History: A Biographer's View of Mrs. Russell Sage /Ruth Hutchinson Crocker 16. Local Philanthropy Matters: Pressing Issues for Research and Practice /William S. McKersie 17. The Future of Foundation History: Suggestions for Research and Practice /Lucy Bernholz Bibliography: Recent Writings about Foundations in History /Susan Kastan Contributors Index