Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...trated the Draft Riots of July 1863, where Irish Catholics attacked African-Americans throughout New York City. At the top of the drawing Nast wrote that the Irish Catholic is bound to respect “no caste, no sect, no nation, any rights,” highlighting the believed lack of respect the Irish immigrants had

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Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence

...tory of the Catholic Missions Among the Indian Tribes of the United States, 1529-1854 (1854), An Elementary History of the United States (1855), and A School History of the United States (1855). Shea was very passionate about his life as a scholar; so much so that over the next four

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Education

...Tilden’s “Wolf at the Door, Gaunt and Hungry.” Don’t let him in,” September 16, 1876 Here a wolf with a papal and Democratic Party collar is trying to force its way into a school room as the children barricade the door. In the background of the cartoon, Uncle Sam can

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