Prof Andrea Turpin: The first female students at U-M
b'On a springtime afternoon in 1924, Minerva Moffett walked across the street from her Kalamazoo home to check on her elderly neighbor. \\nForcing her way into the house, she found Madelon Stockwell Turner, 78, dead on the kitchen floor. She died alone, a recluse in a stately home that was one of the grandest in the city.\\n\\nHer death made headlines for two reasons. She was believed to be the richest woman in Kalamazoo. And a half-century earlier, she was the first woman to enroll at the University of Michigan. Read the story at michigantoday.umich.edu.\\n\\nListen in, as Baylor Professor Andrea Turpin reveals the forces at work that led to co-education at the University of Michigan, starting with Madelon Stockwell. Turpin\'s book is titled "A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917 (American Institutions and Society)."'