Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...ul: 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 19th-century pamphlets in its General Pamphlet
The Bishop’s Bank
...n business. One problem facing these workers was the safekeeping of their hard earned pay. Many took advantage of the savings institutions which existed in the city at this time. Many others did not trust their savings with a private institution. Perhaps their unfamiliarity with a new environment or the
Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France
...story and in particular, of French-American relations during the Revolutionary War, Kite knew the extent to which the French assisted the Americans during their fight for independence. Heuser’s initial response was that the piece was out of scope for the magazine, and that they were not able to respond to
Nuclear War
Nuclear War The dangers of the nuclear arms race and the possibility of mutually assured destruction were a prominent Cold War theme. Knudsen, “First Robin?” 1971 Knudsen compares the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) to a robin announcing the thaw of winter. Beginning with negotiations in 1969, SALT resulted in