Newman Centers

...lege.[7] FCCC 1917 While the Newman club at Penn was reforming, across the country during the early 1900s, other students were forming Catholic clubs. In 1915, seven New York colleges created the Federation of College Catholic Clubs to unite these separate groups. [8] Three years later it counted 19 members

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Prague Spring

...ovak peoples. McGovern, “Flower that Blooms in the Spring,” May, 3, 1968 Even before the invasion, many feared that like a weed the Soviets would kill off any reforms before they had time to blossom. McGovern, “Return to Normalcy,” August 30, 1968 With the Soviets in charge of the country,

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Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

Among the recently digitized images added to our online collection are a number of drawings by cartoonist Thomas Nast. In 1846 at the age of six, Nast immigrated with his mother to the United States and by age 15 he had begun drawing for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News.[1] He joined

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Ann Mattingly’s Miracle Cure

...rking on cataloging one of their pamphlet collections into PastPerfect, an online catalog that is available through PAHRC's website. That way, instead of blindly searching through boxes, all you need to do is a search through the database to locate a pamphlet. Something interesting that I’ve come across are several

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