Art and History
Thomas More: Saint in a Time of Political and Cultural Crisis
Cyril O’Regan, Catherine Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. The first lecture in the 2015 Saturdays with the Saints lecture series, featuring...
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The Church and Islam: 50 Years after Nostra Aetate
Archbishop Michael L. Fitzgerald focuses on “Nostra Aetate,” the Council’s pivotal declaration on non-Christian religions, and the influence it has had on relations between...
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The Once and Future Liberal Arts
Richard Brodhead, president of Duke University, explored “The Once and Future Liberal Arts” in a talk as part of the 2014-15 Notre Dame Forum on November 4 in the Hesburgh...
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The Power of My Pen to Describe: Ten American Diaries, 1750-1900
The Power of my Pen to Describe is a digital exhibit highlighting ten unpublished American manuscript diaries from the holdings in Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh...
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Fighting to Design a Better Home
When Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy ripped through the coastal communities of the United States, they left over 1.5 million homes in ruins. Collapsed roofs lined the streets. Walls...
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From St Petersburg to Notre Dame
This is a digital version of the exhibit that was held at the Department of Rare Books and Special Collection, University of Notre Dame Libraries during Fall 2012. The Russian...
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Power and Politics in the 19th Century River Plate
Rare Books and Special Collections collects journals, and books of exceptional importance from Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Labeled the Southern Cone for its...
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Selections from the Library of José Durand
One of the earliest research projects undertaken by Professor José Durand (1925-1990) was a study of the library possessed by the first native-born historian of the Spanish...
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Historic Urban Environments Lab
The Historic Urban Environments Lab (HUE) at Notre Dame is a new interdisciplinary team of architects, computer scientists, librarians, programmers, anthropologists and GIS...
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