Uniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context is a selection of essays, presented or further developed from the 1999 Association of Core Texts and Courses conference in New Orleans, focusing on a few of the vertices or vortices, where an intensified sense of the interplay between the ways of knowledge may be glimpsed, or a memorable moment in the past when all briefly achieved a greater congruity may be revived for new consideration. These essays fall into an organization according to the major scheme each posits as unifying, or attempting to unify, the liberal arts.

Contributions by: Stephen Zelnick, Eva Brown, Gregory Marks, Dana Densmore, Lucy Melbourne, Michael Hinz, Robert J. McMahon, Harvey Shulman, James F. Walter, Joan L. Richards, William Franke, Dennis L. Sepper, Virginia L. Arbery, Catherine H. Zuckert, Philip Freeman, Stephen Varvis, Jeff Bell, Phillip R. Sloan, J. Scott Lee, James R. Otteson, Margaret Heller, Peter C. Brown, James D. Hardy, Christine N. Cowan, Gale H. Carrithers, Carolyn M. Jones