David J. O'Brien Papers

Fonds

Identifier: DOB

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence with colleagues, students, college administrators, and publishers; grade lists, syllabi, student evaluations, and records from college committees and departmental activities; class notebooks from his Notre Dame courses (he received a B.A. from Notre Dame in 1960); manuscripts of books, articles, papers, and book reviews by O'Brien; and correspondence, minutes, reports, and other meeting material from his tenure on the board of The National Catholic Reporter.

Files regarding Call to Action (1976) conference or meetings; research, essays and manuscripts by others; grants; teaching; workshops; writings; drafts of Isaac Hecker: An American Catholic and of From the Heart of the American Church ; and miscellaneous files representing O'Brien's activities outside of the College of the Holy Cross, 1991-1996.

Dates

Creation: 1956-[ongoing]

Creator

O'Brien, David J. (Person)

Language of Materials

English.

Administrative Information

Contractual restrictions may apply.

Background

Historian on the faculty of Loyola College, Montreal, 1964-1969, and College of the Holy Cross, 1969- ; post doctoral student at Harvard Divinity School, 1970-1971; and member of the board of directors for The National Catholic Reporter , 1980-1987.