Digital Collections
...orical Research Center's oral history program, which focuses on the life histories of retired Diocesan priests, serves to fill gaps in the historical record. Excerpts can be found here. A Map of the United States of America Showing a Part of the Role Played by Catholics in its Discovery, Exploration,
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...ics posed a genuine threat. Conspiracy theories of a papal takeover of the United States abounded. A large dimension of the Protestant revival that began in the late 1820s included militant attacks against the Catholic Church which claimed that the Catholic religion was threatening to America’s Protestant culture. Nativists and
Robert M. O’Reilly papers, 1862-1925 (MC 34)
...0 Robert Maitland O’Reilly (1845-1912) was the 20th Surgeon General of the United States Army serving from September 7, 1902 to January 14, 1909. O’Reilly served a long military medical career beginning as a medical cadet in August 1862 during the Civil War. Other notable appointments include physician at the
John Gilmary Shea Correspondence, 1836-1891 (MC 51)
...y. Shea is considered one of the first American Catholic historians in the United States. Much of his recognition and lasting fame comes from the accolades and accomplishments of publishing nearly three hundred articles and books. The John Gilmary Shea Correspondence preserved in the Philadelphia Archdiocese Historical Research Center primarily