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W.E.B. DuBois asserted that around the 1880s-1890s, to get a ‚real position in a university‘ every American had to go to Germany‘s universities to get their degree. Why and how did this tradition develop in the US university System?

by /u/King_Vercingetorix in /r/AskHistorians

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