Irish catholics and 19th century new york City Politics. Well, good morning, everyone. Todays lecture is called tamany catholics. Just to put this in the context of what weve been looking at the past couple of weeks, what weve been looking at is this struggle for American Catholics to kind of find their place in american culture. Despite persistent and clear expressions of loyalty and patriotism and despite the real and human sacrifice of life in the civil war, after the civil war catholics remained a people viewed by most americans with suspicion and fear. A people apart, a people to be feared. A variety of reasons for this. They were members of what was perceived to be a Foreign Church based in rome. They were, as weve seen, participants in a separate School System. Even just by the virtue of their status as members of the working class at a time when the working classes are coming to be seen as the dangerous classes, catholics appearedded as a people apart, a people dangerously apar
Todays lecture is called tamany catholics. Just to put this in the context of what weve been looking at the past couple of weeks, what weve been looking at is this struggle for American Catholics to kind of find their place in american culture. Despite persistent and clear expressions of loyalty and patriotism and despite the real and human sacrifice of life in the civil war, after the civil war catholics remained a people viewed by most americans with suspicion and fear. A people apart, a people to be feared. A variety of reasons for this. They were members of what was perceived to be a Foreign Church based in rome. They were, as weve seen, participants in a separate School System. Even just by the virtue of their status as members of the working class at a time when the working classes are coming to be seen as the dangerous classes, catholics appearedded as a people apart, a people dangerously apart. Catholic efforts to participate in mainstream american institutions only seemed to m
Catholics. Just to put this in the context of what weve been looking at the past couple of weeks, what weve been looking at is this struggle for American Catholics to kind of find their place in american culture. Despite persistent and clear expressions of loyalty and patriotism and despite the real and human sacrifice of life in the civil war, after the civil war catholics remained a people viewed by most americans with suspicion and fear. A people apart, a people to be feared. A variety of reasons for this. They were members of what was perceived to be a Foreign Church based in rome. They were, as weve seen, participants in a separate School System. Even just by the virtue of their status as members of the working class at a time when the working classes are coming to be seen as the dangerous classes, catholics appearedded as a people apart, a people dangerously apart. Catholic efforts to participate in mainstream american institutions only seemed to make things worse, and this is pe
Celebrate. Rachel swarns for the 72, the families who were enslaved and sold to the American Catholic church in 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic. Sold 272 enslaved people to their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking, professor swarns follows family through nearly two centuries of indentured and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of, the Catholic Church in the united states. Rachel swarns is a journalist author and associate professor of journalism at new york university, who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation about americas universities and their ties to this painful period history. Her work has recognized and supported by National Endowment for the humanities, the four door ford foundation, the Leon Levy Center for biography, the Biographers International organized asia
Celebrate. Rachel swarns for the 72, the families who were enslaved and sold to the American Catholic church in 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic. Sold 272 enslaved people to their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking, professor swarns follows family through nearly two centuries of indentured and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of, the Catholic Church in the united states. Rachel swarns is a journalist author and associate professor of journalism at new york university, who writes about race and Race Relations as a contributing for the New York Times. Her articles about georgetown universitys roots in slavery touched off a National Conversation about americas universities and their ties to this painful period history. Her work has recognized and supported by National Endowment for the humanities, the four door ford foundation, the Leon Levy Center for biography, the Biographers International organized asia