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Full-Text Articles in United States History
Review Of Gentlewomen And Learned Ladies: Women And Elite Formation In Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia, Daniel P. Kilbride
Review Of Gentlewomen And Learned Ladies: Women And Elite Formation In Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia, Daniel P. Kilbride
History
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Review Of Slavery In White And Black: Class And Race In The Southern Slaveholders' New World Order., Daniel P. Kilbride
Review Of Slavery In White And Black: Class And Race In The Southern Slaveholders' New World Order., Daniel P. Kilbride
History
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The Challenge Of Toleration: How A Minority Religion Adapted In The New Republic, Joseph Filous
The Challenge Of Toleration: How A Minority Religion Adapted In The New Republic, Joseph Filous
Masters Theses
This thesis examines the early American Catholic Church and how its first bishop, John Carroll, guided it through the first years of the American republic. The struggles Carroll faced were the legacy of the English heritage of the colonies. English Catholics who shaped colonial Catholic life made the community private and personal in response to the religious atmosphere in the English world. The American Revolution brought toleration for Catholics and they struggled to adapt their hierarchal religion to new republican language. Some congregations went as far as to deny episcopal power, a theory known as trusteeism. Different interpretations struggled to …
Coughlin And Cleveland, Karen G. Ketchaver
Coughlin And Cleveland, Karen G. Ketchaver
Masters Theses
Father Charles E. Coughlin was one of the most prominent, and most controversial, figures in the United States in the 1930s and in the early years of the 1940s. This Canadian-born cleric rose from the life of an ordinary parish priest to becoming one of the leading radio phenomena of his day, masterfully using the new medium to command a vast audience. Coughlin began his radio career addressing religious subjects, but he expanded into the realm of politics by the early 1930s. His views became more and more extreme, and, by the latter part of the decade, he became increasingly …