Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...orth Carolina Press, 2013), 2-3. [2] Vinson, J. Chal. "Thomas Nast and the American Political Scene." American Quarterly 9, no. 3 (1957): 338 & 340. [3] Thomas Milton Kemnitz, "The Cartoon as a Historical Source." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 4, no. 1 (1973), 82. [4] Ibid., 92-93. [5] Bill

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Philadelphia’s First Bishop

...lic sentiment, and concerned about the public duties required of a bishop, American colonial priests declined all offers to establish an episcopate, or to allow a bishop to visit the colonies. The first American diocese was established in Baltimore in 1789, under the leadership of Bishop John Carroll. The boundaries

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Black Catholic periodicals

...must drop prejudice at the threshold and go hand in hand to the altar."[1] American Catholic Tribune, February 25, 1887 PAHRC has a fairly significant, though incomplete, run of the American Catholic Tribune from 1887 to 1894. According to WorldCat, only several libraries worldwide have this newspaper. The Research Center

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