The University of Notre Dame : a history / Thomas E. Blantz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blantz, C. S. C., Thomas E., 1934- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Notre Dame--History.

University of Notre Dame.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (777 pages)

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Thomas Blantz's monumental The University of Notre Dame: A History tells the story of the renowned Catholic university's growth and development from a primitive grade school and high school founded in 1842 by the Congregation of Holy Cross in the wilds of northern Indiana to the acclaimed undergraduate and research institution it became by the early twenty-first century. Its growth was not always smooth -- slowed at times by wars, financial challenges, fires, and illnesses. It is the story both of a successful institution and of the men and women who made it so ..."--Publisher note

Contents:

One. Background In France, 1789-1841

Two. The Founding, 1841-1844

Three. Toward An American Institution, 1845-1854

Four. The End Of An Era , 1855-1865

Five. Father Corby To Father Corby, 1866-1881

Six. A New Notre Dame

Seven. The 1890s: A Contest For Identity

Eight. The First Father John Cavanaugh

Nine. World War I And The "Burns Revolution"

Ten. The Emergence Of Football

Eleven. The 1920s

Twelve. The Depression Years

Thirteen. Notre Dame, The Navy, And World War II

Fourteen. The Postwar Years And The Second Father John Cavanaugh

Fifteen. The Early Presidency Of Father Theodore M. Hesburgh

Sixteen. The 1960s: Progress And Controversy

Seventeen. The 1970s: Coeducation, Vietnam, And More

Eighteen. The 1980s: Father Hesburgh's Homestretch

Nineteen. A President Called "Monk": The First Five Years

Twenty. The 1990s

Twenty-One. Entering The New Millennium.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268108236

0268108234

9780268108212

0268108218