Complex sentence: Retired WSU history professor Robert T. Brown wrote the first scholarly history of the Westfield Normal School, The Rise and Fall of the People's Colleges; the Westfield Normal School, 1839-1914 which was published in 1988 by the Institute for Massachusetts Studies in Westfield.
Split into simpler sentences: Retired WSU history professor, Robert T. Brown, wrote the first scholarly history of the Westfield Normal School, 1839-1914. "The Rise and Fall of the People's Colleges" was published in 1988 by the Institute for Massachusetts Studies in Westfield.