This week’s post is guest-authored by Austin Arminio, a graduate student in the field of Library and Information Science. For the past three months, I worked on a project to digitize publications of the Commission on American Citizenship of The Catholic University of America. During the 1938 Golden Jubilee of The Catholic University of America Read More
Posts with the tag: Commission on American Citizenship
The Archivist’s Nook: Catholic Textbooks Beyond the Classroom
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The Archivist’s Nook: The Significance of Eddie Patterson’s Friends
Nineteen-thirty-eight was not an auspicious year as far as the stability of Europe went. Adolph Hitler’s invasion into non-German territories proceeded at an alarming rate. Benito Mussolini had been running Fascist Italy as a police state for over a decade. The Vatican held uneasy diplomatic relations with both powers. Further east, Josef Stalin presided over Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook: CUA + .EDU
When those familiar with The Catholic University of America think of this school, they may think of a national Catholic University, which it is. It also served as the center of Catholic education in the United States throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Back in the late-nineteenth century, a man named Thomas J. Read More
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