The desire to form communities and act together is inherent in people. This can encompass various aspects of our lives: work, family, sport, recreation, and, of course, faith and spiritual life, which may be manifested not only through affiliation with a specific church or denomination but also through a local community of people who, sharing Read More
Posts with the tag: American Catholic History
The Archivist’s Nook: People’s stories in Parish histories
Posted in: News & Events The Archivist's Nook | Tags: American Catholic History, American Catholicism, Donations, Parish histories, Rare Books | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: A Century in Caldwell – The School of Canon Law at 100
September 26, 1923 marked the opening of lectures for the 1923-24 academic year at Catholic University. Students hustled between classes in McMahon and Caldwell Halls, on what may have seemed a typical start to a new semester. But on this particular day, a new School opened on campus – the School of Canon Law. Since Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: American Catholic History, Canon Law, Uncategorized, University Archives | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: The Provenance and Providence of a Public Historian
This semester, we said goodbye to Dr. Timothy Meagher, University Archivist and Curator of the American Catholic History Collection at The Catholic University of America. In addition to his service as University Archivist, Meagher was Associate Professor with the Catholic University History Department, where he regularly taught Irish-American and immigration history. Though we will miss him Read More
Posted in: Digital Scholar Bytes News & Events The Archivist's Nook | Tags: American Catholic Archives, American Catholic History, American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, Aquinas Hall, Bruce and Dorothy Abts Mohler, Catholic History, Catholic University, Humanities, MA, Mullen Library, public history, Public Programming, Timothy J. Meagher, University Archives, Worcester | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Catholic Yank on the Western Front, 1918
As part of our ongoing efforts to mark the centenary of the First World War a previous blog post explored the 1917 experiences of Connecticut Catholic Robert Lincoln O’Connell training as a combat engineer in Washington, D.C. This is documented by the collection of digitized letters to his mother and sisters housed in the Archives Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: American Catholic History, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), Combat Engineer, Connecticut Catholic, Doughboy, First Infantry Division, Robert Lincoln O'Connell, Sapper, university archives, World War I, WWI | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Civil War Catholics – Patriotism on Trial
The mixed legacy of heroic sacrifice and bitter division of the American Civil War continues to permeate popular culture and political discourse. As a growing minority in the 1860s, making up about ten percent of the United States population concentrated in the north, Catholics were embedded in this conflict. Their relatively unknown story was recently Read More
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