Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...heaters.[1] By doing so, Dougherty declared it sinful for any of the area’s 800,000 Catholics to enter a movie theater. In his letter to the priests of the Archdiocese, Dougherty called the motion picture theater “perhaps the greatest menace to faith and morals in America today.”[2] Dougherty and many others

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Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home

...rst year about 200 men visited the club each day and by 1943 that was up to 800.[11] The women volunteers, called the Morale Corps, would organize various themes for the dances as well as staff the offices and service desks and serve food and refreshments. The military men described

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Pamphlets

...also includes valuable documentation relating to the US’s affairs in Ireland, particularly on topics of the Land League and Home Rule. Search the collection via our online catalog....

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Associations & Institutions

...course catalogs. Also included are ephemera such as brochures.   Some material may also be found in the General Pamphlet collection.   Search the collections via our online catalog....

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