For generations, the Du Bois family had been an accepted part of the community since before his great-grandfather had fought in the American Revolution. ... Du Bois's determination was rewarded with a scholarship to Harvard, where he began the first scientific sociological studies in the United States. ...

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The competition with the Soviets gave an added boost to the technological and scientific revolution; and American universities expanded immensely as centers for defense research, for the education of a vast new public, and as employers of creative writers and as arbiters of taste. ...

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