Digital Collections
...y@Villanova has digitized books, papers, and periodicals owned by the American Catholic Historical Society, the majority of which relate to Irish American history. ACHS material can be found here and CHRC Historic Papers can be found here. The Catholic Historical Research Center's oral history program, which focuses on the life
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...ress, 1975; O'Toole, James M. The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008; Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Our faith-filled heritage : The church of Philadelphia bicentennial as a diocese 1808-2008. Strasbourg : Editions du Signe, 2007. PAHRC has a significant number of
Friendly and Adopted Sons
...an Irishman.[7] Reasoning that if they all counted themselves adopted Americans, he could be adopted into the Irish. Washington was then invited to a dinner by the Friendly Sons on January 2, 1782.[8] Annual St. Patrick Dinner, 1977 By the 1790s the group began to lose membership and many members
Research Request Forms
...o obtain a copy of the record. CHRC has some school records, mainly report cards, for a number of parochial schools: Ascension of Our Lord, St. Catharine of Sienna, St. Donato, St. Frances Cabrini Regional School, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Gertrude, St. Hugh, St. Joan of Arc, St. Madeline