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The United States Catholic Historical Society
About the SocietyIn 1884, John Gilmary Shea founded the United States Catholic Historical Society for "the appreciation and preservation of American Catholic Heritage." For over a century, the Society accomplished its mission by publishing scholarly texts, conducting seminars and lecture series, and funding research projects.
Today, the Society continues to fulfill its mission with the quarterly publication of The U.S. Catholic Historian, an award–winning historical journal of the Church in America. The publication can be found in university libraries throughout the world, on the desks of notable historians, and in the homes of thousands of people who have a respect for and inclination to learn about our Catholic past.
In addition to the journal, the Society publishes scholarly works on the history of American Catholicism. The most recently published works are A Popular History of the Archdiocese of New York, Revised, an update of an earlier work on the history of the Archdiocese of New York by Reverend Monsignor Florence Cohalan, and Archbishop Corrigan and the Italian Immigrants, by Reverend Stephen M. DiGiovanni (1994), an analysis of Italian immigrants and their relationship with Archbishop Corrigan, a nineteenth century ordinary of the Archdiocese of New York.
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USCHS Publications
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Documentary Heritage Archives