Publications – American Catholic Historical Society https://amchs.org The oldest Catholic historical organization in the United States Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:37:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://amchs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/achs-logo-small-150x150.png Publications – American Catholic Historical Society https://amchs.org 32 32 American Catholic Studies: Winter 2024 https://amchs.org/american-catholic-studies-winter-2024/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:07:09 +0000 https://amchs.org/?p=2061 Check out the latest issue of American Catholic Studies. It begins with an article on Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne and convert to Catholicism who was recently declared venerable.  

It also features a survey of English-language biographies of Pope John XXIII, a study of Catholic views on companionate love, and a cover essay in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions.

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]]> American Catholic Studies: Fall 2024 https://amchs.org/american-catholic-studies-fall-2024/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:27:39 +0000 https://amchs.org/?p=2046 The latest issue of American Catholic Studies has arrived — and it’s a special one! To mark the journal’s 25th anniversary, we invited leading scholars of American Catholicism to reflect back on the past quarter century. Their brief essays reveal the remarkable dynamism of the genuine sense of community that has emerged.  

The images on the front and back covers of the issue reveal the evolution of the journal from the Records of the ACHS to the present day. It’s been quite a journey, with more great history still to be written!

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]]> American Catholic Studies: Winter 2023/24 https://amchs.org/american-catholic-studies-winter-2023-24/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://amchs.org/?p=1914 We’re pleased to announce the release of our Winter 2023/24 issue.  

In This Issue:

  1. “Ten Thousand Pardons”: Accusations of Clerical Misconduct in St. Peter’s Parish 1806-1809
  2. Difficult Women and Dangerous Memories: Silenced, Suppressed, and Misrepresented Founders in the History of American Religious Life
  3. Cattell’s Catholics: Who Were These American Men (and Women) of Science?
  4. Book Reviews

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]]> Editors of American Catholic Studies win Trisco-Minnich prize for editing https://amchs.org/editors-of-american-catholic-studies-win-trisco-minnich-prize-for-editing/ Sun, 07 Jan 2024 01:50:30 +0000 https://amchs.org/?p=1910 Congratulations to the editors of American Catholic Studies, the flagship publication of the American Catholic Historical Society. They have been named the first winners of the American Catholic Historical Association’s Trisco-Minnich prize for editing.

The American Catholic Historical Association is honored to award the Robert F. Trisco and Nelson H. Minnich Prize to Thomas Rzeznik of Seton Hall and Nicholas Rademacher of the University of Dayton. 

The prize honors outstanding editing of a work in Catholic Church history.

Dr. Rzeznik has served as the journal’s co-editor since 2013; Dr. Rademacher has been co-editor since 2018. Through their efforts, ACS, which is the only scholarly publication devoted exclusively to an interdisciplinary approach to U.S. Catholicism, has earned a reputation as an important venue for articles, forums, and reviews.

Drs. Rzeznik and Rademacher are especially well known for the generous support that they provide to contributors, especially to first-time authors and those early in their academic careers. 

It is due to the work of Drs. Rzeznik and Rademacher that ACS continues to offer well-written and well-researched articles, alongside roundtables, forums, reviews, and cover essays that are of interest to scholars working in this field, and to a more general readership.

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Check out our 2023 annual newsletter to learn about the ACHS, its activities, and our schedule for the upcoming 2023-2024 year!  Members should have already received their print copy in the mail.

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]]> American Catholic Studies: Summer 2023 https://amchs.org/american-catholic-studies-summer-2023/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:32:51 +0000 https://amchs.org/?p=1802 Looking for some summer reading?  Check out the latest issue of American Catholic Studies.

The issue includes:

  • A lead article examining the history of Catholic junior colleges in Washington, DC
  • A comparative study of the activism of Father Theodore Hesburgh and Father James Groppi in the fight for fair housing during the 1960s
  • A review symposium on Susan Bigelow Reynolds’s new book, People Get Ready: Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury (Fordham University Press)
  • A special set of reviews of recent documentary films on prominent figures in U.S. Catholicism
  • A cover essay on That ‘70s Catholicism: The View from Philadelphia, based on the exhibit currently on display at the Society’s house 

We hope you enjoy!

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]]> American Catholic Studies: Spring 2023 https://amchs.org/american-catholic-studies-spring-2023/ Tue, 11 Apr 2023 02:14:24 +0000 https://amchs.org/?p=1791 Spring has arrived – and so has the Spring 2023 issue of American Catholic Studies. 

The issue features:

  • A three-part article on “Preserving Black Catholic Archives: Creation and Use,” on the archival riches of Xavier University of Louisiana and the work of the Xavier’s Institute for Black Catholic Studies.
  • An account of “The Nun Hit by a Brick” during a civil rights march in Chicago.
  • A profile of Father William J. Kenealy, SJ of Boston College Law School.
  • A cover essay celebrating the 50th anniversary of NETWORK, the lobby for Catholic social justice.
  • Plus a great selection of book reviews!

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]]> American Catholic Studies: Winter 2023 https://amchs.org/american-catholic-studies-winter-2023/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 04:02:49 +0000 https://amchs.org/?p=1762 The latest issue of the Society’s journal, American Catholic Studies, is here. It features articles on the reconciliation of Father Leonard Feeney, the controversial Boston priest (by Richard Gribble); on Father Thomas Tobin, a WWII-era labor priest in Portland, Oregon (by Samuel Mertz), and a 50th anniversary account of the history of Pax Christi USA (by Judy Coode). We also have a new batch of Forgotten Classics in American Catholicism and a great set of book reviews.

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]]> American Catholic Studies: Fall 2022 https://amchs.org/american-catholic-studies-fall-2022/ Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:33:03 +0000 https://amchs.org/?p=1732 The latest issue of the Society’s journal, American Catholic Studies, is here. We’re pleased to feature a special Forum on “Building Catholic Studies Where We Are,” an account of Bishop John England’s diplomatic work, and a cover essay on the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

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If you’re not yet a member, please visit our membership page. Rates are a very reasonable at $50 a year. All members automatically receive a print subscription to the journal.

]]> 2022 Newsletter https://amchs.org/2022-newsletter/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:54:58 +0000 https://amchs.org/?p=1711 Check out our annual newsletter to learn about the ACHS, its activities, and our schedule for the upcoming 2022-2023 year!  Members will be receiving copies in the mail this week.

We invite you to share the newsletter with family, friends, associates, and anyone who might be interested in American Catholic history and the exciting events we have in store.  

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