Josephine Walsh (center) on her way to Europe, July 1900

A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries

...ortunate position, even though I couldn’t see it that way." Her brother's refusal to allow her to attend school. Her brother's refusal to allow her to attend school (cont.) Dr. James Walsh lecture on the proper duty of women - "to bear many children, that men may abound." The Josephine

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In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...have been able to digitize the correspondence of Marianne and Sarah Jane (referred to as Jane) Campbell. As discussed in a past blog post, the sisters were actively involved in the suffragist movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In addition to the correspondence, we also digitized their monthly

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Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence

...Shea for clarification of sources to the assertion that there were large defections in the Catholic Church in America. Other large correspondence files contain letters from Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, James Cardinal Gibbons, Peter DeSmet, John Ward Dean, Edmond Mallet, and Eugene Vetromile. The collection is open to researchers. The

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