A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries
...a woman in the early twentieth century. It appears that her family did not support her ambition. Her brother James in particular had a very strict idea of a woman’s domestic responsibilities, and did not allow her to pursue anything else. "When I had kept house for about a year,
Temperance Movement
...its mission and pledge, the CTAU relied on public rallies in order to gain support and convince people to give up alcohol. In addition, the union made use of numerous newspapers, such as Boston’s The Pilot or New York's Catholic Society Journal of America in order to spread the message
James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?
...friendly to my nomination. Indeed some of their leading men say, they will support no other Northern man. Page 1 Part of the second page reads: There is an element now actively at work which may defeat all calculations and many leading men of both parties are engaged in it.
Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons
...pal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of faith), raised concerns that Catholics owed allegiance first to the Church and not to the United States. The increasing number of Catholic immigrants, most notably from Ireland, led many to believe that America’s Protestant culture was at