Testing the Elite

This volume explores the extent to which the Revolutionary period (1740-1815) impacted the faculty, students, and institutional life of Yale College, and how those changes shed insight into the nature of the American Revolution itself as a conservative or radical event.

David Wilock is the head of the Social Studies Department at Wilton High School (CT), where he also teaches. He is also affiliated with UCONN through their ECE program. His primary research interest is revolutionary America and the development of the nation during that period.

1. The Presidents of Yale 2. The Backbone of Yale: Staff, Faculty and Curriculum and Instruction 3. Resisting Regimentation: The Yale College Student Experience Conclusion: Yale at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century