Fall semester is about to start and campus is coming to life! Whether you’re an undergrad starting your first year at Notre Dame or a graduate student pursuing your Masters or Ph.D., a fan of the University or with family ties here, we have the books for you.
Explore Notre Dame’s rich history with pivotal moments and influential people who helped make the university what it is today.
The University of Notre Dame:
A History
by Thomas E. Blantz C.S.C.
Blantz captures the strong connections that exist between Notre Dame’s founding and early life and today’s university. Alumni, faculty, students, friends of the university, and fans of the Fighting Irish will want to own this indispensable, definitive history of one of America’s leading universities.
Notre Dame Vs. The Klan
by Todd Tucker
In 1924, two uniquely American institutions clashed in northern Indiana: the University of Notre Dame and the Ku Klux Klan. Todd Tucker’s book, published for the first time in paperback, Notre Dame vs. The Klan tells the shocking story of the three-day confrontation in the streets of South Bend, Indiana, that would change both institutions forever.
Black Domers:
African-American Students at Notre Dame in Their Own Words
Edited by Don Wycliff and David Krashna
Foreword by Theodore M. Hesburgh C.S.C.
Black Domers tells the compelling story of racial integration at the University of Notre Dame in the post–World War II era. In a series of seventy-five essays, beginning with the first African-American to graduate from Notre Dame in 1947 to a member of the class of 2017 who also served as student body president, we can trace the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the African-American experience at Notre Dame through seven decades.
John Zahm, Evolution, and the Catholic Church
by John P. Slattery
Faith and Science at Notre Dame weaves together a vast array of threads to tell a compelling new story of the late nineteenth century. The result is a complex and thrilling tale of Neo-Scholasticism, Notre Dame, empirical science, and the simple faith of an Indiana priest. John Slattery charts the rise and fall of John Zahm, examining his ascension to international fame in bridging evolution and Catholicism and shedding new light on his ultimate downfall via censure by the Congregation of the Index of Prohibited Books.
Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame
by Kenneth M. Sayre
Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame recounts the fascinating history of the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Philosophy, chronicling the challenges, difficulties, and tensions that accompanied its transition from an obscure outpost of scholasticism in the 1940s into one of the more distinguished philosophy departments in the world today.
God, Country, Notre Dame
The Autobiography of Theodore M. Hesburgh
by Theodore M. Hesburgh C.S.C.
Experience Father Hesburgh’s life story in his own words in God, Country, Notre Dame. As an adviser to presidents, special envoy to popes, theologian, author, educator, and activist, Father Hesburgh was for decades considered the most influential priest in America. His autobiography brings his phenomenal accomplishments to readers with his own voice and personal perspective.
Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh:
On and Off the Record
by Robert Schmuhl
For over half a century, Robert Schmuhl interviewed and wrote about Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., who served as the president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 until 1987. Fifty Years with Father Hesburgh: On and Off the Record contains excerpts and commentary from various interviews Schmuhl conducted with Father Hesburgh about his service as Notre Dame’s president. Over time, Hesburgh’s meetings with Schmuhl evolved into a friendship, which is documented in this personal and warmhearted portrait of the man who was for decades considered the most influential priest in America.
City and Campus:
An Architectural History of South Bend, Notre Dame, and Saint Mary’s
by John W. Stamper
Edited by Benjamin J. Young
City and Campus tells the rich history of a Midwest industrial town and its two academic institutions through the buildings that helped bring these places to life. John W. Stamper paints a narrative portrait of South Bend and the campuses of the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College from their founding and earliest settlement in the 1830s through the boom of the Roaring Twenties. Industrialist giants such as the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company and Oliver Chilled Plow Works invested their wealth into creating some of the city’s most important and historically significant buildings.