Colleges

...cese of Philadelphia. Some were created in response to the increase in the city's population following both the Industrial Revolution and European immigration. Later, as women were given the right to vote in 1920, institutions that had educated young women expanded to include further instruction. Examining the founding of the

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Portrait photograph of Robert M. O'Reilly, circa 1870

A lengthy and active military career

...r. In a letter O'Reilly wrote to his sister Mary while he was stationed in Florida, he notes the concern over the yellow fever outbreak and discusses the movement of troops in the area, as well as how he had been treating members of women's religious orders. O'Reilly writes: There

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An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition

.... Indeed, it was only through lawsuits in states with “bone-dry” laws like Oklahoma did Catholics preserve the right to obtain and use altar wine.[6] Catholic Total Abstinence Union https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7025       However, this does not mean that Catholics were always in favor of alcohol. As discussed in a

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