To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940

American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacyof American science. Although they emerged as universities in the latenineteenth century, the incorporation of research as a distinct part of theirmission largely occurred after 1900. ToAdvance Knowledge relates howthese institutions, by 1940, advanced from provincial outposts in the worldof knowledge to leaders in critical areas of science.