ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with many of the book-length historical studies of twentieth-century southern educational history published since 1981, when a similar review was undertaken in another volume of essays on southern educational history. One recently published southern university history gives a strong indication that the problems of narrow and celebratory institutionalism have not disappeared. In 1987, Virginius Dabney produced a history of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), the urban university in the capital city of Richmond. Unlike many histories, Georgia School of Technology pays much attention to events after World War II, a particularly important period for an engineering institution like Georgia Tech. Black history has been one of the most popular fields of scholarship in both southern history and in educational history. Ironically, in southern educational history, particularly in the study of the twentieth century, the number of recent studies has been rather small.
