A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
—Richard Hofstadter
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
—Richard Hofstadter
Memory is the thread of personal identity, history of public identity.
—Richard Hofstadter
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Henry Steele Commager American Historian
- Walter Reuther American Labor Leader
- Carl Sandburg American Poet, Historian
- Van Wyck Brooks American Critic
- Henry Adams American Historian
- Daniel J. Boorstin American Historian
- Doris Kearns Goodwin American Historian
- Studs Terkel American Oral Historian
- Richard Neustadt American Historian
- Norman Mailer American Novelist, Journalist
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