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Campus Events, Wars and Episodes
The presidents at commencement
1865 — 2009 · the University of Notre Dame
The standing note: Notre Dame stands in the unincorporated community that bears its name, beside the city, and this history prints that plainly wherever the university appears; its commencements were nevertheless among the…
Dr. King at the Stepan Center, 1963
October 18, 1963 · the Stepan Center, Notre Dame
The invitation: Martin Luther King Jr. came to South Bend because a South Bend woman asked him. Alphia Ganaway, a west-side resident, invited him; Dr. Roland Chamblee and other Black leaders formed a Citizens' Civic Planning…
Notre Dame's military institutions · the cadets, the Midshipmen's School, and the tri-service ROTC
1858 — the present day
A few miles northeast of the city line, in the unincorporated community of Notre Dame, stands the largest military institution this ground has ever held: The University of Notre Dame — in the Notre Dame census-designated place…
Notre Dame's memorials: the door and the fountain
1924 – 1986
The ground they stand on: The University of Notre Dame stands in the unincorporated community that bears its name, north of the city line — a boundary this history prints once and then treats plainly: the university's veterans…
What Lit the Roof: The Notre Dame Fire of 1879
23 April 1879
The documented facts: The fire that destroyed the second Main Building at Notre Dame is among the most fully narrated events in this history — the Notre Dame section tells its course: on the morning of Wednesday, 23 April 1879…