Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons
...blic School of the 1870s,” History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Summer, 2005), 180. [2] Ibid., 182. [3] Joshua Brown, Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 62; Niall Whelehan, The Dynamiters: Irish Nationalism and
A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries
I’ve been volunteering at PAHRC this summer, and am currently creating an inventory for two artificial collections: “handwritten manuscripts” and “manuscripts books.” It appears that many of the items in these collections were removed from manuscript collections. For instance, many of the items that I’ve come across were created by
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As a volunteer at CHRC this summer, I was tasked with labeling descriptions of letters from the journal of Bishop Francis Kenrick, who served as bishop of Philadelphia from 1830 (?) until 1851. After noting the page on which each letter started, I marked whether the letter was written in
“An Appeal to Truth”
As a volunteer here at PAHRC for the summer, I’ve been cataloging the pamphlet collection. One of the first pamphlets I dealt with immediately caught my attention. Entitled “An Appeal to Truth”, it was written in 1915 by Cardinal Mercier, who was then serving as the Archbishop of Malines (Mechelen)