Randolph Community College
In Earning Through Learning — The story of Randolph Community College, Clark Adams shares many of the highlights of Randolph Community College’s history from its beginnings as a dream of local community leaders in 1957 to its role as a comprehensive community college and integral part of the civic, cultural, educational, and economic landscapes of both […]
Oak Knoll School
This commemorative book invites readers to journey through Oak Knoll’s remarkable first century, shaped by Cornelia Connelly’s mission to “meet the wants of the age.” From the challenges of the Great Depression to the digital revolution and a global pandemic, Oak Knoll’s story is one of resilience, vision, and an unwavering commitment to faith, wisdom, […]
Oxford College at Emory
In this most recent book about Oxford, Emory alumnus and Oxford native Erik Oliver tells the story of Emory’s bold beginning and the evolution of Oxford College through the campus and town buildings and landscapes. Through early sources, he re-creates long-lost and largely forgotten edifices, gives treatment of building campaigns and architectural styles, and describes […]
Ouachita Baptist University
Ouachita Voices: Celebrating 125 Years of Academic & Christian Excellence has first-person accounts from Ouachita presidents, faculty members, trustees, alumni and students as well as historical overviews from a trio of resident experts: Dr. Ray Granade, Dr. Hal Bass and Dr. Tom Auffenberg. For many readers, this collection of essays, along with historical and contemporary campus […]
Providence Day School
On September 28, 1970, 112 students and five teachers gathered in a converted house on a former horse pasture at the intersection of Sardis and Rama Roads, near the Olde Providence neighborhood. The parents who gathered throughout 1970 to create Providence Day —amid busing that had begun in the 1969-70 school year—said publicly that the […]
Emory School of Medicine
This book traces the distinguished history of the Emory University School of Medicine from its inception to the current day and highlights the intellect, strength, endurance, and hard work of the many who planned and built an internationally renowned health-sciences center. From its earliest days as a small “practitioner’s school” struggling to stay afloat, the […]
LSU Laboratory School
To the Class of 1951 Excerpted from the 1951 Cub yearbook As University High School assumes the prestige and dignity of an old school, her history and her memories, as well as her aspirations, become more extensive and the responsibilities of the student body take on greater proportions. All the students who have passed through […]
Louise S. McGehee School
https://bookhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/louise-s.-mcgehee-slider.png Miss McGehee founded the school with a purpose in mind in regard to the place of women in our society at this time. Many girls’ schools were founded in the period from the 1880s to the 1920s, but McGehee’s was one of the few girls’ schools that answered the need of Newcomb College and […]
University of La Verne
After 125 years, the University of La Verne is in so many ways a vastly different academic landscape from the place it was seventy-five or even fifty years ago, a testament to the demands of the student marketplace as well as the farsighted administrators and boards of directors who guided it through the decades. But […]
Iona College
One could say that the publication of Advancing the Legacy—The Story of Iona College has been 75 years in the making. The diamond anniversary was celebrated in 2015. After all, a polished diamond is made from an otherwise unattractive stone, and only after the rock is shaped, carved and polished does the brilliant light shine through. So […]