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SETON HALL UNIVERSITY Seton Hall University
A History, 1856-2006
DERMOT QUINN
“An insightful piece of cultural history, explaining how Catholics built their own institutions, debated among themselves how these institutions served a greater good, and struggled to grow and adapt their schools to a more secular age. The scholarship is profound.” —Terry Golway, author of Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party
Founded in 1856 by Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley of Newark, Seton Hall University has played a large part in New Jersey and American Catholic life for nearly two centuries. From its modest beginnings as a small college and seminary to its present position as a major national university, it has always sought to provide “a home for the mind, the heart, and the spirit.”
408 pp 4 color and 42 b/w images 7 x 10 978-1-9788-0694-8 cloth $39.95AT
February 2023
Higher Education • History
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Foundations
Chapter 2: A College Begins
Chapter 3: The Michael Corrigan Years
Chapter 4: Another Corrigan, Another Fire
Chapter 5: A New Century
Chapter 6: McLaughlin at the Helm
Chapter 7: From McLaughlin to Monaghan to Kelley
Chapter 8: Resurgence
Chapter 9: Seton Hall at War
Chapter 10: A New Beginning
Chapter 11: A New University
Chapter 12: A Law School For the City
Chapter 13: A Revolution under Dougherty
Chapter 14: Noble Dream: The Seton Hall University School of Medicine and Dentistry
Chapter 15: Dangerous Decade: Seton Hall in the 1970s
Chapter 16: The Seton Hall Renaissance
Chapter 17: Towards the New Millennium
Chapter 18: A Law School for the City: Seton Hall Law from 1961
Chapter 19: The Sheeran Years
In this vivid and elegantly written history, Dermot Quinn examines how Seton Hall was able to develop as an institution while remaining consistent with its founder’s vision. Looking at the men and women who made Seton Hall what it is today, he paints a compelling picture of a university that has enjoyed its share of triumphs but has also suffered tragedy and loss. He shows how it was established in an age of prejudice and transformed in the aftermath of war, while exploring how it negotiated between a distinctly Roman Catholic identity and a mission to include Americans of all faiths.
Seton Hall University not only recounts the history of a great educational institution, it also shares the personal stories of the people who shaped it and were shaped by it: the presidents, the priests, the faculty, the staff, and of course, the students.
DERMOT QUINN is Professor of History at Seton Hall University. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin and New College, Oxford, his books include Understanding Northern Ireland, Patronage and Piety: English Roman Catholics and Politics 1850-1900, and The Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life (the latter from Rutgers University Press).
