A History of Catholic Higher Education in the United States

FAIN: FA-11218-75

J. Philip Gleason
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN 46556-4635)

To research and write the history of Catholic higher education in the United States. Their history is similar to that of other colleges, but distinctive elements arising from the nature of the group that founded them makes their story important not merely for the light it sheds on the development of American Catholicism, but also with respect to broader American social, educational, and intellectual history.