About This Issue

Our only other issue devoted to this theme was published in the fall 1988. Anticipating the bicentennial of The Catholic University of America, 1889-1989, and the bicentennial of Georgetown University, 1789-1989, we featured articles by Joseph M. White and Robert Emmett Curran, authors on those topics in this current number. Philip Gleason contributed an article to the 1988 publication on "Neoscholasticism as Preconciliar Ideology," a topic which was so pervasive in the curricula of Catholic colleges and universities that it was clearly congenial with the theme.

We are grateful to the contributors to this issue. Erik J. Chaput is a doctoral candidate in American History at Syracuse University. James M. Bergquist is Emeritus Professor of History at Villanova University. Robert Emmett Curran is Emeritus Professor of American History at Georgetown University. Philip Gleason is Emeritus Professor of American History at the University of Notre Dame. Eugene Halus is an Associate Professor of Politics at Immaculata University located in Immaculata, Pennsylvania. Karen M. Kennelly, C.S.J., is a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet and the Coordinator of the History of Women Religious Conference. David J. O'Brien is Emeritus Professor of American History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, and the University of Dayton Professor of Faith and Culture. C.J.T Talar is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology in Houston, TX. Joseph M. White is Associate Professor of American Catholic History in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America.

The present issue of the U.S. Catholic Historian commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of The Catholic Dimension in Higher Education by our Consulting Editor, Justus George Lawler. The book was published by Newman Press with an Introduction by Leo R. Ward, C.S.C., and a dedication to "John U. Nef, founder of the Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago." It was excerpted in The Commonweal and quoted in Time magazine—"Thomism and the split-T"; was reviewed by Walter Ong, S.J., in Theological Studies; was publicly commended by Sister Madeleva Wolf, C.S.C.; and "imprimatured" by Albert G. Meyer, Archbishop of Chicago.

In 2011, Erdmans will publish Lawler's Were the Popes against the Jews? The tentative subtitle is: Tracking the Myths, Exposing the Lies, Confronting the Truths.