Earlier this summer, this humble archivist was minding his own business, when who should walk into my world but trouble – cold, metal trouble… While performing a standard inventory review in one of our storage rooms, I noticed a large metallic object on a shelf that was hidden behind a piece of furniture. Naturally I Read More
Posts with the tag: World War I
The Archivist’s Nook: One for the Ledgers – The Case of the Mystery Armor
Posted in: Digital Scholarship The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: First World War, Military chaplain, Military history, Museum, museum collection, World War I, WWI | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Anti-Catholic History Resources in Special Collections
Catholic University’s Special Collections Department has a vast quantity of documents which encompass the sentiment of Anti-Catholicism in America that spans from colonial times to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Our rare books collection includes eighteenth century works such as Letter from a Romish Priest in Canada to one who was taken captive in Read More
Posted in: Blogs Catholic History Digital Scholarship Humanities Rare Books The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: Al Smith, American Civil War, American Revolution, George Washington, John F. Kennedy, National Catholic War Council, National Council of Catholic Men, Oregon School Case, The Catholic University of America, Ursuline, World War I | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: From the Rhineland to Washington-Soldier’s Homecoming, 1919
Robert Lincoln O’Connell (1888-1972), a World War I Connecticut army engineer of Irish-Catholic heritage, was the subject of two of my previous blog posts. They explored his letters home to family while training for the military in Washington in 1917, and his active service on the western Front in France in 1918. The third and Read More
Posted in: Blogs Humanities The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: Catholic University, Coblenz, Combat Engineer, D.C., First Engineers, First Infantry Division, First World War, Germany, Lewisite, New York City, O'Connell, Occupation, Rhineland, Victory Parade, Washington, World War I | 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 University Archives | Tags: American Catholic History, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), Combat Engineer, Connecticut Catholic, Doughboy, First Infantry Division, Robert Lincoln O'Connell, Sapper, World War I, WWI | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Heroes for More than One Day
In his 1977 hit single ‘Heroes,’ David Bowie sang “We can be heroes, just for one day…We can be heroes, forever and ever.” He may just as well have been referring to the ‘Catholic Heroes of the World War‘, whose valor was chronicled in the American Catholic press, 1929-1933. This now obscure paean to Catholic Read More
Posted in: Catholic History Digital Scholarship Humanities The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: Bureau of Historical Records, Catholic Heroes of the World War, Catholic News Service, First World War, National Catholic War Council, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Wild Bill Donovan, World War I, WWI | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: “Mother” Millar’s Mission – Catholic Women’s Service in WWI
Imagine you purchased a box of used books and found buried within a tattered satchel dating from the First World War. What would you do with it? This scenario played in the summer of 2016, when a thrift store benefiting an Alabama-based women’s shelter contacted the CUA Archives. Hidden within a box of cookbooks – Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), Fr. John Burke, Margaret Richards Millar, National Catholic War Council, NCWC, USCCB, Women Workers, World War I | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Connecticut Catholic in Washington, 1917
One hundred years ago, American entry into the First World War transformed the nation’s capital from a sleepy Southern crossroads into a modern hub of administration commensurate to an emerging first class world power. It was here a young Catholic soldier wrote his family, primarily his mother and sisters, back in their hometown of Southington, Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), Combat Engineer, First World War, Fort Belvoir, Fort McNair, Robert Lincoln O'Connell, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington D.C., World War I | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: World War I on Display
Author Katherine Santa Ana served as Graduate Library Pre-Professional (GLP), 2015-2017. This year marks the centenary of the United States entering the “war to end all wars.” Here at the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, our collections preserve the World War I stories of many men and women through the papers, photographs, Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: Bruce M. Mohler, Camp Gordon, Great War, National Catholic War Council, postcards, Rober Lincoln O'Connell, World War I | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Catholic University Declares War
The decisive entry of the United States of America into the calamitous First World War on April 6, 1917 joining Britain and France against Imperial Germany was a momentous event in the history of the American Catholic Church. Making up about seventeen percent of the American population, Catholic support of the war effort was a Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: Bishop Thomas J. Shahan, Edward L. Killion, Fr, Fr. John Burke, Francis Duffy, Maloney Hall, Msgr. Peter Guilday, National Catholic War Council, President Woodrow Wilson, Student Army Training Corps (SATC), USCCB, World War I, WWI | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Birds of a Feather – THE CARDINAL’s Early Years
The Cardinal, the aptly named annual yearbook of The Catholic University of America (CUA), recently celebrated its centenary of publication. Volumes are available online as a digital collection of the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, which also preserves print copies. As we approach another centenary, American entrance into the First World War, Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: Class of 1916, Edward L. Killion, The Cardinal, The Catholic University of America, World War I, Yearbook | Comment