Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...llywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration, (New York: Columbia Press, 2007), 67. Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 September 2022 August 2022

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Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...pher began in the 1930’s, taking photos for the Roman Catholic High School newspaper and neighborhood newspaper The Kensington Critic. He was then a U.S. Army photographer during World War II, for which he received a Legion of Merit, and later a staff photographer for Pennsylvania Hospital. Having never discarded

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World War One Army Chaplains

...uring World War One serve as an example of sacrifice and devotion to one’s country. For more on Catholics in World War One, check out our online catalog. [1] “U.S. Army Chaplain Corps,” National Museum of the U.S. Army, (January 28, 2015), https://armyhistory.org/u-s-army-chaplain-corps/. [2] Williams, Michael, American Catholics in the

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Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

.... Hawks traveled to Spain during the war and took pictures of the war torn country. What he documented, led him to believe that the Nationalists needed to triumph in order to restore Spain from the damage inflicted by the Second Republic and the Republican forces. Hawks went on to

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