The University Libraries and Archives will have reduced hours over the Thanksgiving Holidays, November 24 – 28. Regular hours will resume Sunday, November 29.

* Please note that the Physics Library will open 12pm – 5pm on Tuesday, Nov. 24.

For more information please see Mullen Library hours and Campus Library hours.

Download the 2009-2010 schedule

The Religious Studies and Humanities Services Department has created a new research guide in Art and Art History.

The guide is designed to orientate the researcher to finding and using resources in Mullen Library at The Catholic University of America.

Questions, comments and suggestions can be directed to Kevin Gunn, Coordinator of Religious Studies and Humanities Services.  Samantha Saporito assisted in the making of this guide.

There are nearly campus-wide power outages scheduled for  Monday and Wednesday, November 16 and 18, from 7am until approximately 8:15am. Mullen Library will open at 8am as is normally scheduled, but will have reduced services available to patrons until power is restored. The stacks will remain closed until the power is on. We regret any inconvenience this may cause.

Need to find a Greek New Testament, a commentary on Exodus, or some journal articles for a research paper?

The Religious Studies and Philosophy Library has just published a new online research guide for Biblical Studies.

Questions and comments can be submitted to Dustin Booher, Religious Studies Librarian.

The Religious Studies and Humanities Services Department has created 4 new research guides for Modern Languages researchers:  French, Spanish, Italian, and German.

The guides are designed to orientate the researcher to finding and using resources in Mullen Library at The Catholic University of America.

Questions, comments and suggestions can be directed to Kevin Gunn, Coordinator of Religious Studies and Humanities Services.  Samantha Saporito and Nathan Mueller assisted in the making of the guides.

The Tower has served as the student newspaper at The Catholic University of America since the Fall of 1922. In an effort to preserve the newspaper, and to make it easily accessible to researchers, alumni, and the general public, the microfilm versions of the newspaper have been digitized and put online in The Tower Archive Online. You can search The Tower Archive Online at http://tower.lib.cua.edu.

The Tower Archive Online includes the very first edition of The Tower dated October 27, 1922 through the edition dated May 6, 2003.  The Tower Archive Online is available to anyone, from anywhere, and is keyword searchable.

Our new search interface Aladin Discovery has undergone a few improvements lately. Most notable is that the default location for search is now Catholic University. If you would like to expand your search to include all WRLC libraries, click on the option for “Show items from all locations“. Alternately you can use the drop-down menu to the right of the search results to select a specific school.

As we now have a CUA specific version of Discovery, we can make modifications that will best suit our students and faculty. Discovery is still in beta, and we will continue to tweak and make changes throughout the semester. Please send us your thoughts and comments to help us improve Discovery.

The John C. Cort papers consists of correspondence, clippings, writings, book drafts, publications, and photographs reflecting his career as a labor leader, writer, and activist. Please see finding aid at http://libraries.cua.edu/achrcua/cort.html

Responding to an appeal by the Commission on American Citizenship at Catholic University, George A. Pflaum of Dayton, Ohio began publishing a bi-monthly comic book, the Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact, for distribution in Catholic parochial schools. Intended as an antidote to the perceived immorality of popular comic books, Treasure Chest contained educational features, narrated the lives of saints, and presented adventure stories featuring realistic characters with what were considered wholesome values, like patriotism, equality, faith, and anti-communism.

By the early 1960s, the Treasure Chest was at the height of its popularity. In 1964, Joe Sinnott, the illustrator of Marvel Comics’ “The Fantastic Four”, teamed up with writer Berry Reece to produce a story depicting a U.S. presidential election. It was set in the future: the presidential election was supposedly that of 1976, the year of the nation’s bicentennial. “Pettigrew for President” lasted for ten issues, following the campaign trail of the fictional Tim Pettigrew from the announcement of his candidacy through the national convention of his party. The candidate’s face was carefully hidden in every panel, until the final page of the final issue of the story, when Pettigrew is finally revealed: the first black candidate for president of the United States!

This site presents the full Pettigrew series in its entirety for the first time. It also features biographical material on the series’ author and illustrator, a question and answer interview with Berry Reece, and background information contextualizing the series.