historydata (version 0.1)

early_colleges: Early colleges in the United States

Description

This dataset contains information about the founding of colleges established before 1848 in the United States of America.

Usage

early_colleges

Format

A data frame with 65 observations of 6 variables.

Variables

• college: The name of the college or university.
• original_name: The name under which the institution was founded, if different.
• city, state: The location of the institution.
• established: The year that the institution was founded.
• sponsorship: The sponsoring religious denomination, or secular if not founded by a denomination.

References

This data was transcribed by George Oberle from the table "Some American Institutions of Higher Education Founded Before 1848, in Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 460-461.

Examples

head(early_colleges)
if(require(ggplot2)) {
  ggplot(early_colleges, aes(x = established)) + geom_bar(binwidth = 5) +
  ggtitle("Founding Dates of Early American Colleges")
}