The Making of the Modern Core: Some Reflections on the History of the Liberal Arts in Catholic Higher Education in the United States

David Quigley is a Professor of History and the Dean of both the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston College. Dr. Quigley teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses on the nineteenth-century United States and on political and urban history. His research to date has explored the history of race and democracy between the American Revolution and Reconstruction in local political cultures of New York. He is completing a new synthetic project, Last, Best Hope: International Lives of the American Civil War (Hill & Wang) and is editing both A Companion to American Urban History (Blackwell) and Busing in Boston: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford).