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  • Hesburgh of Notre Dame

    Assessments of a Legacy

    Edited by Todd C. Ream, Michael J. James ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the life and legacy of Father Theodore Hesburgh (1917–2015), an educator, priest, public servant, and long-serving President of the University of Notre Dame. Despite being a transformative figure in Catholic higher education who led the University of Notre Dame for 35 years and wielded influence with US presidents on civil rights and other ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Parish Boundaries

    The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North

    by John T. McGreevy ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    A "remarkable" study of white Catholics and African Americans—and the dynamics between them in New York, Chicago, Boston, and other cities ( The New York Times Book Review).Parish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Onward, Christian Soldiers

    The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States

    by Deal W. Hudson ...
    Like a mighty army moves the church of God;Brothers, we are treading where the saints have trod.We are not divided, all one body we.One in hope and doctrine, one in charity.-- From the nineteenth-century hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers"What keeps America a country of religious practice and traditional values? How has the U.S. avoided suc-cumbing to total secularism? The answer to these ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Beyond Distributism

    by Thomas E Woods, Jr. ...
    Troubled by rampant injustice and inequality, many conscientious Christians advocate radical economic reforms. Distributism, a program that traces its popularity to Catholic writers Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton, promotes the widespread ownership of property by tempering the market with guilds or similar associations. Thomas Woods, drawing on a wealth of historical evidence and informed by ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pursuing Truth

    How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland

    by Mary J. Oates ...
    Series series Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
    In Pursuing Truth**, Mary J. Oates explores the roles that religious women played in teaching generations of college and university students amid slow societal change that brought the grudging acceptance of Catholics in public life.** Across the twentieth century, Catholic women's colleges modeled themselves on, and sometimes positioned themselves against, elite secular colleges. Oates describes ... Read more

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  • Howard Zinn's Southern Diary

    Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism

    by Robert Cohen ...
    The activist and author of A People's History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta.During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into the historic protests occurring across Atlanta. At the time, Howard Zinn was a history professor at Spelman and served ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saving America's Cities

    Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

    by Lizabeth Cohen ...
    "An incisive treatment of the entire urban-planning world in America in the last half of the 20th century" —Alan Ehrenhalt, The New York TimesIn twenty-first century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • America's Church

    The National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation's Capital

    by Thomas A. Tweed ...
    The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a "dazzling jewel" and dismissed as a "towering Byzantine beach ball." In this intriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine is also an illuminating site from which to tell the story of twentieth-century Catholicism. He organizes his narrative ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Elizabeth Johnson

    Questing for God

    by Heidi Schlumpf ...
    Series series People of God
    Who is God? That is the question Elizabeth A. Johnson has spent her life exploring. As a Catholic theologian, writer, teacher, and religious woman, Johnson has searched for “the Living God” and ways to understand God that make sense for our time, perhaps most famously in her groundbreaking book She Who Is. Her work is firmly grounded in the Catholic tradition while it explores the edges of that ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Making a New Deal

    Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939

    by Lizabeth Cohen ...
    This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or patronize the new A&P. As they made daily decisions ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Catholic High Schools

    Facing the New Realities

    by James L. Heft, S. M. ...
    Catholic high schools in the United States have been undergoing three major changes: the shift to primarily lay leadership and teachers; the transition to a more consumerist and pluralist culture; and the increasing diversity of students attending Catholic high schools. James Heft argues that to navigate these changes successfully, leaders of Catholic education need to inform lay teachers more ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Living the Catholic Social Tradition

    Cases and Commentary

    by David Rusk, William P. Bolan, Patrick J. Hayes, Monika K. Hellwig, Christopher C. Kelly, Bishop John J. Leibrecht, Steven M. Rodenborn, Kathleen Dolan Seipel, Todd David Whitmore, Rev. Robert J. Vitillo, Thomas Massaro, Joseph M. Palacios ...
    In a time when the global and national economies seem to favor so few and harm so many, when the threats to the common good are so prevalent and so deep, how do people of faith think about these issues and act with those who are most vulnerable? Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary addresses these challenges through contemporary theory and research conducted within the ... Read more

    $38.09 USD