History
A Sisterhood of Sorts
When the University of Notre Dame went coed in 1972, it did so on the crest of a wave that seemed poised to change everything for American women. The Equal Rights Amendment had...
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The Days the Music Lived
On a Saturday afternoon in late April, the only sound in the grassy bowl behind the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, New York, is the occasional passing car. Sometimes...
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Break the Line
Norman C. Francis, who would one day become the beloved, influential president of Xavier University of Louisiana, arrived as a freshman at this historically black and Catholic...
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The Option for the Poor and Christian Theology
Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P., professor emertus of theology at the University of Notre Dame, is well known as the one of the foundational thinkers of liberation theology. In this...
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Venezuelan Politics and Irish Dance
As the situation deteriorates in Venezuela, we chat with Latin American expert Michael Coppedge of the Keough School of Global Affairs, who explains how we got here, and what to...
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History Professor Fr. Bill Miscamble, C.S.C. on Father Hesburgh and His Legacy
Father Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C. is a professor of history at Notre Dame. He is a longtime friend of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, speaking at several of our Fall...
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Tidings from the Other Side
I am the keeper of a family memory. Its details are blurry and its edges curled, but I hold it close, like a pocketworn heirloom photograph. My grandmother is 6. She is playing on...
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Ghost Tracks
As a kid growing up in northern Illinois, I wasn’t the sort who was overly concerned with supernatural phenomena. My imagination ran more along the lines of Casper the Friendly...
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Mob Bombs Rockne Plane
Knute Rockne needed a plane ticket to fly to Los Angeles. Since leading his Fighting Irish to their third undefeated and untied national championship season in his 13 years as...
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The Naturalist
The Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland, CSC, didn’t know how to drive. But in December 1925, he needed to travel far from home to the first national symposium on organic chemistry. He had...
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Euthanasia of Patients with Non-Terminal Mental Disorders
Full title of the talk: “Physician Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia of Patients with Non-Terminal Mental Disorders: An Emerging Ethical Crisis.” The speaker Dr. Mark S. Komrad,...
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St. Nicholas: Miracle Worker and Gift Giver
Gabriel Radle, Visiting Assistant Professor in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, presents on the life and cult of St. Nicholas of Myra. This lecture is the seventh of...
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