The Battle of Antietam: a Philadelphia soldier’s experience
...o document the experience of Irish Americans, specifically in White's case Irish Catholics, as the men who made up the 69th regiment were mostly of Irish origin from Philadelphia. Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April
Education
...an, Asian, and African races respect the idea of equal rights for all, the Irish driven by their Catholicism want to poison American liberty. Nast and other contemporary cartoonists often depicted the Irish with ape-like features to showcase the groups’ inferior and animalistic nature. Nast’s cartoons reveal deep-seated animosity towards
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...of American agreed to stronger self-censorship and created the Production Code Administration, headed by Catholic layman, Joseph Breen.[9] Another effect of the boycott was the growth in power of the Legion of Decency, a Catholic organization which reviewed and rated movies (the history of the Legion will be explored more
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...incredible lies about the Catholic Church after leaving it. Heated debates between Catholic and Protestant clergymen occurred in Philadelphia during the 1830s. One of the most well-known were the exchanges between John Breckinridge, secretary and general agent of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church and John Hughes, pastor