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• Winner of Catholic Media Association Book Award: History 2021 (United States)
• Winner of Catholic Media Association Book Award: History, Second Place 2021 (United States)

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Master researcher Thomas Blantz offers new insights and information about Edward Sorin, Theodore Hesburgh, Knute Rockne, and other household names in the Notre Dame family, but his history also incorporates a host of unknown or underappreciated figures. Readers will enjoy learning about the men who helped Notre Dame thrive and succeed through the ages. -Kathleen Sprows Cummings, author of A Saint of Our Own A great university deserves a great institutional history. This work fills the void. And, as a case study, it fleshes out some legacies of Catholic higher education as part of the development of American higher education writ large. -John Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education In exacting detail, Blantz recounts over 21 chronologically organized chapters just how difficult Sorin's vision was to accomplish as he and his descendants battled disease, fire, poverty, prejudice and war. Combatting those challenges, the Revs. William Corby, John A. Zahm and James A. Burns, to name only three, gave the majority of their lives. -The Journal Gazette In The University of Notre Dame: A History, Father Thomas E. Blantz, CSC, spares his readers the long, theoretical introduction customary to academic history. Instead he launches with a theme-setting story. . . . Blantz has lived a significant portion . . . of the history he writes about. -Notre Dame Magazine Blantz tells the story of Notre Dame's growth and development from a primitive grade school and high school founded in 1842 to the acclaimed undergraduate and research institution it became. It is the story of an institution and of the men and women who made it, the hundreds of Holy Cross brothers, sisters, and priests whose faithful service in classrooms, student residence halls, and across campus kept the university progressing through difficult years. -American Catholic Studies Newsletter Father Thomas Blantz has published what will surely be the standard reference work for the history of the University of Notre Dame in the foreseeable future. . . . alumni/ae and friends of Notre Dame will appreciate Blantz's efforts to capture so many salient events in the school's history and development that will recall for many their years as students. -Holy Cross History Thoroughly researched, comprehensive in coverage, discerning in judgments rendered, and eminently readable, Father Thomas Blantz's new history of Notre Dame does justice to the university's storied past. -Philip Gleason, author of Contending With Modernity

A great university deserves a great institutional history. Put another way, I think the University of Notre Dame would feel incomplete without its own comprehensive institutional history. This work fills the void. And, as a case study, it fleshes out some legacies of Catholic higher education as part of the development of American higher education writ large. --John Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education Thoroughly researched, comprehensive in coverage, discerning in judgments rendered, and eminently readable, Father Thomas Blantz's new history of Notre Dame does justice to the University's storied past. --Philip Gleason, author of Contending With Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century

A great university deserves a great institutional history. This work fills the void. And, as a case study, it fleshes out some legacies of Catholic higher education as part of the development of American higher education writ large. -John Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education Thoroughly researched, comprehensive in coverage, discerning in judgments rendered, and eminently readable, Father Thomas Blantz's new history of Notre Dame does justice to the university's storied past. -Philip Gleason, author of Contending With Modernity Master researcher Thomas Blantz offers new insights and information about Edward Sorin, Theodore Hesburgh, Knute Rockne, and other household names in the Notre Dame family, but his history also incorporates a host of unknown or underappreciated figures. Readers will enjoy learning about the men who helped Notre Dame thrive and succeed through the ages. -Kathleen Sprows Cummings, author of A Saint of Our Own In The University of Notre Dame: A History, Father Thomas E. Blantz, CSC, spares his readers the long, theoretical introduction customary to academic history. Instead he launches with a theme-setting story. . . . Blantz has lived a significant portion . . . of the history he writes about. -Notre Dame Magazine In exacting detail, Blantz recounts over 21 chronologically organized chapters just how difficult Sorin's vision was to accomplish as he and his descendants battled disease, fire, poverty, prejudice and war. Combatting those challenges, the Revs. William Corby, John A. Zahm and James A. Burns, to name only three, gave the majority of their lives. -The Journal Gazette Father Thomas Blantz has published what will surely be the standard reference work for the history of the University of Notre Dame in the foreseeable future. . . . alumni/ae and friends of Notre Dame will appreciate Blantz's efforts to capture so many salient events in the school's history and development that will recall for many their years as students. -Holy Cross History Few people are better equipped to tell the story of how Sorin and Notre Dame beat the odds than Father Thomas Blantz, C.S.C. . . . In his newly published 600-page tome, The University of Notre Dame: A History, Blantz narrates the history of the University from the establishment of its founding religious order and the arrival of Father Sorin in Indiana to the inauguration of Father John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., as the University's 17th president in 2005. -American Catholic Studies Newsletter [This] book is especially important for describing the formal and informal means that embedded the university's development as a leader of American Catholicism in the ongoing life of the Congregation of Holy Cross. For historical purposes, the book offers readers at Notre Dame and far beyond a nonpareil account of the institution Father Blantz has served so long and so well. -American Catholic Studies

A great university deserves a great institutional history. This work fills the void. And, as a case study, it fleshes out some legacies of Catholic higher education as part of the development of American higher education writ large. -John Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education Thoroughly researched, comprehensive in coverage, discerning in judgments rendered, and eminently readable, Father Thomas Blantz's new history of Notre Dame does justice to the University's storied past. -Philip Gleason, author of Contending With Modernity Master researcher Thomas Blantz offers new insights and information about Edward Sorin, Theodore Hesburgh, Knute Rockne, and other household names in the Notre Dame family, but his history also incorporates a host of unknown or underappreciated figures. Readers will enjoy learning about the men who helped Notre Dame thrive and succeed through the ages. -Kathleen Sprows Cummings, author of A Saint of Our Own

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Thomas E. Blantz, C.S.C., is professor emeritus of history at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of A Priest in Public Service: Francis J. Haas and the New Deal (1982), published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

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