“I am sorry that you did not travel from the College to the Ciampino airfield with the President in the helicopter; however, I have found, as I am sure you have, that riding in a helicopter is a questionable undertaking under any circumstances irrespective of who you are with,” wrote John McCone, future CIA Director, Read More
Posts with the tag: Scranton
The Archivist’s Nook: Teacher, Rector, Soldier, Spy – A Photographic Tour of O’Connor’s Rome
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: catholic history, Cold War, Dwight Eisenhower, John McCone, Martin J. O'Connor, North American College, photographs, Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, Pope Pius XII, Richard Nixon, Rome, Scranton, Seminary, university archives, vatican, Vatican II | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: John Mitchell – Apostle of Labor
May First is a date full of meaning as ‘May Day’, a traditional European spring festival, the Feast Day of St. Joseph the Worker for Roman Catholics, and International Workers’ Day for leftists. However one marks this day it is certainly an appropriate time to note one of the most important figures in American labor Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902, Braidwood, catholic history, John Mitchell, Knights of Labor, Labor Leaders, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Scranton, Theodore Roosevelt, United Mine Workers of America, university archives, William B. Wilson | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: T.V. Powderly – Labor’s ‘American Idol’
January 22 is the birthday of Terence Vincent Powderly (1849-1924), a man not widely remembered in the twenty-first century, but a national celebrity, an ‘American Idol’ if you will, in the tumultuous era of the late nineteenth century. Born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, to Irish-Catholic immigrants, Powderly was a reform minded Mayor of Scranton (1878-1884), head Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Blogs, catholic history, Clan na Gael, Immigration Bureau, Irish Land League, Knights of Labor, Labor Leaders, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Scranton, Terence Vincent Powderly, Theodore Roosevelt, university archives, Washington, William McKinley | Comment