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The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania traces its roots back to a predecessor organization, the Ohio Valley Catholic Historical Society, which was founded by Msgr. Andrew Arnold Lambing on February 1, 1884. [1] Lambing was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and a prominent early historian of the Catholic ...
After several attempts during the early and mid-century to establish a historical society, an organization called Old Residents of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania was formed on January 10, 1859. Five years later the group changed its name to Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. In 1911, society members oversaw the planning and ...
Catholic revival. Historian John McGreevy identifies a major Catholic revival that swept across Europe, North America and South America in the early 19th century. Historians call it “Ultramontanism.” shorthand for a cluster of shifts that included a Vatican-fostered move to Thomistic philosophy.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Rhode Island Historical Society. South Carolina Historical Society. South Dakota State Historical Society. Tennessee Historical Commission. Texas Historical Commission. Texas State Historical Association. Utah State Historical Society. Vermont Historical Society.
The Penn's Creek massacre was an October 16, 1755 raid by Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans on a settlement along Penn's Creek, [n 1] a tributary of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. It was the first of a series of deadly raids on Pennsylvania settlements by Native Americans allied with the French in the French and Indian War .
Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge National Historical Park is a national memorial dedicated to General George Washington and an active Episcopal parish in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. [1] The church was inspired by a sermon preached by Anglican minister Reverend Dr. W. Herbert Burk, founder and first rector of the parish. [2]
The American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA) was founded by Peter Guilday in Cleveland, Ohio, in December 1919 as a national society to bring together scholars interested in the history of the Roman Catholic Church or in Catholic aspects of secular history. It aims to promote a deeper and more widespread knowledge of the history of the ...
The Jesuits in the United States constitute the American branch of the Society of Jesus and are organized into four geographic provinces — East, Central and Southern, Midwest and West — each of which is headed by a provincial superior. The order is known, historically, for its missions to the Native Americans in the early 17th century, for ...