September 22, 1775: Philip Milledoler

Cover art for September 22, 1775: Portrait of Philip Milledoler By James Peale - Private Collection, ca. 1830

Philip Milledoler was a minister and the fifth president of Rutgers University (Rutgers College, then), but it’s a little more complicated than that.

Milledoler took a moribund college and transformed it into the intellectual powerhouse it is today. But how it happened is at the heart of our story.

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