Newspapers & Periodicals
...in 1886 to collect material documenting the history of Catholicism in the United States. The newspaper collection contains Catholic newspapers from throughout the United States as well as some Catholic newspapers from Canada, England, Ireland, France and Italy. The collection contains over 300 titles, representing 35 states and the District
Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons
...the pope, by having authority over American Catholics, was a threat to the United States government and its people. "The American River Ganges. The priests and the children" https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7357 Another reason for Nast’s anti-Catholic drawings was a fear that Catholics were attacking the public school system, which Nast saw as
Centennial Exposition
...at Exhibition,” The Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 8, 1876, SB1, 234. [2] United States Centennial International Exhibition Shares, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7137 [3] “The Exhibition,” The Catholic Standard, May 20, 1876, 1. [4] Opening of the Centennial Building on Sunday Afternoons,” The Catholic Standard, SB1, 235. [5] “Great Exhibition,” SB1, 234 [6] The
Collection Development Policy
...sources include scholarship relating to the history of Catholicism in the United States as well as social and cultural histories of the various ethnicities that shaped the American Catholic Church. CHRC does not actively collect non-institutional records, but welcomes donations of print and non-print materials related to Catholicism in the