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Biemiller, Lawrence – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
On July 2, 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed Justin Morrill's second agriculture-school bill into law. Along with another measure he championed, in 1890, it created a system of land-grant colleges that rooted agriculture firmly in university research and helped democratize American higher education, creating institutions not for the sons and daughters…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Higher Education, Research Projects, Agriculture