A series of papers on the history of higher education is presented with a focus on the interaction of gender and religion with the curriculum in shaping educational experiences and outcomes. Papers are as follows: "Introduction to Volume Six" (Lynn D. Gordon); "Farmer's Daughters: The Education of Women at Alfred Academy and University Before the Civil War" (Kathryn M. Kerns); "'The Kind of Knowledge of Most Worth to Young Women': Post-Secondary Vocational Training for Teaching and Motherhood at the Wheelock School, 1888-1914" (Barbara Beatty); "The Challenge of Jane Addams: A Research Note" (Ellen Condliffe Lagemann); "Education for Equality: Women's Rights Periodicals and Women's Higher Education, 1849-1929" (Patricia Smith Butcher); "The Turning Point in American Jesuit Higher Education: The Standardization Controversy Between the Jesuits and the North Central Association, 1915-1940" (Lester F. Goodchild); and "Celebrating Fair Harvard" (Suzanne Hildenbrand). (SM)