Freedom and Constraint: Catholicism in 20th-Century American Higher Education

American Catholic Historical Association 10
Friday, January 9, 2026: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Conference Room 4C (Hilton Chicago, Fourth Floor)
Chair:
Peter Thuesen, Indiana University Indianapolis
Papers:
“God’s Litigator”: William Bentley Ball, Religious Formation, and the Making of a First Amendment Lawyer
Dennis Wieboldt III, University of Notre Dame
Adventure, Danger, Romance: Imagining Catholic Higher Education in Mid-20th-Century America
Sandra A. Yocum, University of Dayton
Cardinal Cushing and the Rise of Ecumenical Catholicism at Harvard
Peter Thuesen, Indiana University Indianapolis
“To Serve Society in All Its Parts”: St. Louis, Notre Dame, and the Public Role of the Catholic University in the Modern World
Anthony Oleck, University of Notre Dame
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