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How is it that one of the world’s most prestigious public research universities developed institutional amnesia and forgot the story of its founding and early development? That is the question that, The Los Angeles State Normal School, UCLA’s Forgotten Past – 1881-1919, seeks to answer.
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It has been said that history is written by the victors, and at least one of the victors in the transformation of the Los Angeles State Normal School into the Southern Branch of the University of California was not above telling a version of history, which was to say the least, self-serving, and after nearly eighty years, appears to have never been objectively verified.
The Los Angeles State Normal School, UCLA’s Forgotten Past – 1881-1919, provides the first updated history of the Normal School since 1907, and explores the connection between the Normal School and UCLA, in the areas of academics, student organizations, athletics, alumni associations, campus physical plants, and the administrative personnel responsible for the founding and development of the institution that would ultimately become UCLA. The book also seeks to explain why 1919 replaced 1881, as the founding date of UCLA in the late 1930s, and why, by any objective standard of historical analysis, 1881 should still be considered the founding date of UCLA.
The Los Angeles State Normal School:
UCLA’s Forgotten Past – 1881-1919: Paperback, 232 pages
Product Details
- ISBN 9781329317192
- Copyright Keith W. Anderson (Standard Copyright License)
- Edition First Edition
- Published July 11, 2015
- Language English
- Pages 232
- Binding Perfect-bound Paperback
- Interior Ink Black & white
- Weight 0.89 lbs.
- Dimensions (inches) 6 wide x 9 tall
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 ‑ A Brief History
Chapter 2 ‑ Normal School Academic Programs
Chapter 3 ‑ Normal School Student Organizations
Chapter 4 ‑ Normal School Athletics
Chapter 5 ‑ The Los Angeles State Normal School Alumni Association
Chapter 6 ‑ Campus Physical Plants
Chapter 7 ‑ The Normal School Administration
Chapter 8 ‑ The UCLA Historical Narrative
Appendix A ‑ Faculty and Staff
Appendix B ‑ Current Universities with Normal School Roots
Appendix C ‑ Comparative Histories
Endnotes
Index