American Czestochowa

...the President said. “We have not forgotten the traditional bonds that have united our peoples since our earliest days as a nation.” John Cardinal Krol officiating at the Shrine's Dedication Mass, 10/16/1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson with children in traditional Polish attire and congregants at the Dedication Mass, 10/16/1966  

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Centennial Exposition

...s celebrations of independence : Centennial Exposition, Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition, Bicentennial Exposition, 1970, P018.474a. [13] The Exhibition,” The Catholic Standard, 1. [14] Discourse of Rt. Rev. John Quinlan, Bishop of Mobile, in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, July 4th, 1876, (Philadelphia: McLaughlin Brothers, 1876), P001.1592; F. X. Weninger,

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Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...h his cartoons.[3] Thus by studying this cartoons one is able to come to a better understanding of the social conflicts and prejudices that existed in America during the late 1800s. Visit our archives or our digital collections for more historic cartoons.               [1]

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Temperance Movement

...ver 66,000.[12] President Roosevelt speaking before C.T.A.U. delegates and United Mine Workers of America http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013647511/resource/ One of the largest events held by the CTAU was the 1905 annual convention in Wilkes-Barre, PA when President Teddy Roosevelt spoke as the keynote to over 80,000 people. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union continued

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