Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...lings stemmed from the allegiance of the Irish Catholics, who were seen by many Americans as loyal to the pope over the United States. Indeed, many believed that Catholicism was incompatible with democracy and that it threatened the established Protestant culture in the country.[7] “Something that will not "blow over."

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Catabloging

...alt Rice, Jr. I have begun to create our own catablog to highlight PAHRC's manuscript collections. Each collection includes an abstract and controlled access terms; some entries also have a link to a PDF version of the full finding aid. Researchers have the ability to search for collections by keyword

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Irish Land War

...people refused to work or sell produce to landlords and their supporters. Many of the pamphlets I’ve come across were either published by or discuss the Irish National Land League; others were published by or for subgroups of the land league like the Irish National Land League of the United

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Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals

...ntinue to be said in Latin rather than in a vernacular language such as German, his letters reveal a concern for the growing population of German Catholics in his expansive diocese. It is clear from a letter written to Kenrick from the president of the Council of Lyon in 1843

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