HESBURGH LECTURE SERIES 2013 Program - Alumni Association ...

John T. McGreevy, Ph.D., ’86
I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean, College of Arts and Letters
Biography
John McGreevy is the author of two books: Catholicism and American Freedom: A History
(W.W. Norton, 2003) and Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth
Century Urban North (University of Chicago Press, 1996). He has held major fellowships from
the American Council of Learned Societies, the Erasmus Institute, and the Louisville Institute,
and has published articles in The Journal of American History, American Quarterly, the Chicago
Tribune, Pacific Historical Review, Religion and American Culture, and Commonweal.
Lectures
Arts and Letters for the 21st Century
Categories
Education, History, Notre
Dame
This lecture discusses the future direction of the College of Arts and Letters and the opportunities available for our students.
The Ellsworth Outrage (1854): or How the Tarring and Feathering of a Jesuit Priest Helps
us Understand the Relationship Between Catholicism and the Modern World
This lecture uses a dramatic incident—the tarring and feathering of a Jesuit priest in Ellsworth, Maine in 1854—to consider
the relationship of Catholicism to American society in the 19th century.
The 1970s or How the Era of Disco and Pet Rocks Powerfully Shapes
American Society Now
This lecture uses audience participation to think through how events of the 1970s, sometimes seen as the most silly of the
decades especially when compared to the 1960s—powerfully shape American society today.
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