Hold Fast to What Is Good : A History of Augsburg University in 10 Objects

By: Phillip Adamo

Augsburg University began as a Norwegian Lutheran seminary in 1869 in Marshall, Wisconsin. The school moved to Minneapolis in 1872, and, over the course of the twentieth century, developed into a fully-accredited, liberal arts college, which always included several professional programs. Now, in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, 150 years after its founding, Augsburg still educates students for lives of meaningHold Fast to What is Good is a history of Augsburg told through objects-the material culture left behind by the "Auggies" themselves. This history includes tales of teachers and students, but also of whale bones and ceremonial pipes, of missionaries and prohibitionists, of sex scandals, racism, kidnapping, murder, and, of course, money. It is a story about ideas, and how those ideas evolved over time; a story of how one school both reasserted and reinvented its vocation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1732779309
• ISBN13: 9781732779303
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: philadamo.com