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Statue of John Hughes, founder of Fordham University, at the Rose Hill campus; the statue was presented on June 24, 1891. [1]The history of Fordham University spans over 175 years, from the university's beginnings as St. John's College in 1841, to its establishment as Fordham University, and to its clerical independence in the mid-twentieth century.
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the Fordham University History Department and Center for Medieval Studies. It is a web site with modern, medieval and ancient primary source documents, maps, secondary sources, bibliographies, images and music. Paul Halsall is the editor, with Jerome S. Arkenberg as the contributing editor ...
Fordham University (/ ˈ f ɔːr d ə m /) is a private Jesuit research university in New York City, United States.Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its original campus is located, Fordham is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the northeastern United States [11] and the third-oldest university in New York State.
The following is a list of the presidents of Fordham University, from its establishment as St. John's College onward. From 1841 to 1846, the university was governed by the Archdiocese of New York , and was placed in the custody of the Society of Jesus thereafter.
As of 2017, Fordham is composed of a total of four undergraduate and six constitutive graduate schools, [3] situated across three campuses in southern New York State, with its two main campuses in New York City: Rose Hill in The Bronx, and Lincoln Center in Manhattan. As of 2017, Fordham claims over 183,500 alumni throughout the world. [4]
Denzel Washington's alma mater is throwing it back almost 50 years in honor of his latest role.. As Washington's new movie Gladiator II hit theaters over the weekend, his former college, Fordham ...
Mark Naison (born 1946) is a professor of history at Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York. [1] Naison, a former political activist, was a member of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 1960s. He is a graduate of Columbia University and holds a Ph.D. in American history.
The following is a partial list of current and former notable faculty of Fordham University ... (1890–1964), Professor of History at Fordham University from 1939 to ...