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. Simultaneously detailed and documented yet lively and interesting, The University of Notre Dame: A History is the most complete and up-to-date history of the university available.
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.