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

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

...uly 2019 April 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 February 2018 January 2018 November 2015 August 2015 May 2015 April 2015 January 2013 September 2012 August 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012

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Victory Mass

...war effort. Furthermore, it connected Catholicism and patriotism in a new way as it framed the war as one needed to defend Western civilization against the aggression and destruction of Nazi Germany. https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/6875 For more on the Victory Mass visit the archives for our scrapbook collection, which has numerous newspaper

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Education

...f the cartoon, Uncle Sam can be seen grabbing a gun implying that the only way to protect the schools, and by extension America, is to eliminate the Church. “Madness (Yet there’s method in it),” January 15, 1876 This cartoon takes much of its inspiration from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet as

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National Council of Catholic Women

...th Annual Convention, National Council Catholic Women, 1920-1930, September 28-October 1, Denver, Colorado, P008.900 [2] MC78_80.7527, Letter to Dennis Cardinal Dougherty from Anne Sarachon Hooley, 9/28/1934 [3] MC78_80.7258, National Council pf Cahtolic Women: What it is, Why it is, What it does [4] MC78_80.7527, Letter to Gertrude Gavin from Dennis

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