Guest blogger Tricia Pyne. Ms. Pyne is director of the Associated Archives at St. Mary’s & University in Baltimore, MD. She earned her doctorate in U.S. history from The Catholic University of America. Dr. Kauffman was on her dissertation committee. Dr. Christopher J. Kauffman, educator, scholar, mentor, husband, father, colleague, and friend passed into the Read More
Posts with the tag: history
The Archivist’s Nook: Christopher J. Kauffman – American Catholic Historian
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: American Catholicism, Blogs, Catholic, Catholic History, Catholic University of America, history, Humanities, Knights of Columbus, U.S. Catholic Historian, University Archives | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: The Brutal Archives
The following post was authored by Graduate Library Professional Juan-Pablo Gonzalez. The construction of a Brutalist building at The Catholic University of America marked a departure from the existing architectural style previously seen at CUA and it was a departure from original conceptions of the growth of the university taking shape in a form that Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: 1970s, Aquinas Hall, architectural photography, architecture, art, black and white, brutalism, Catholic University, CUA, DC, DC architecture, DC brutalism, desaturation, geometric, geometry, history, libraries, museums, photography, psychogeographics, special collections, The Catholic University of America, University Archives, video art, visual experience, Washington DC | Comment
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Primary Resources
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) provides full-text, fully searchable content from a wide range of primary sources for the “long” 19th century, 1789-1914. NCCO indexes the full text of books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, diaries, photographs, statistics, literature, government reports, treaties, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages. Released incrementally beginning Read More
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