Spring
Meeting
The COVID-19 public health emergency has caused the cancelation of our 2020 Spring Meeting in Scranton. All registrants will have their fees refunded promptly.
Catholic Historical Review
Published continuously since 1915, the CHR is the official organ of the ACHA. Members have unlimited access to the electronic version and its full archives.
Seattle 2021
Call for Papers
The ACHA will host its 101st Annual Meeting in Seattle in January 2021. We are accepting paper proposals through July 1, 2020.
Call for papers
Extended through July 1
Calendar Deadlines & Events
Shea Prize deadline
The Shea Prize honors a book that has made the most original and distinguished contribution to knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church.
Find out more »Guilday Prize deadline
The Guilday Prize honors a manuscript from an author who has not previously been published. The winning manuscript is published in the Catholic Historical Review.
Find out more »101st Annual Meeting in Seattle
The ACHA hosts its 101st Annual Meeting January 5-7, 2021.
Find out more »ACHA News & Announcements
ACHA Statement on Racism and Complicity
The ACHA has issued a statement condemning racism and supporting non-violent protest in the face of the brutal killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other African Americans.
Special Notice: Extended Deadlines for All ACHA Activities
The American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA), founded December 1919, is eager to support scholars, teachers, archivists, and students of Catholic history during these uncertain times. To that end, we have extended our deadlines for the Annual Meeting, research and travel …
ACHA Newsletter: Winter 2019
A look ahead at the Annual Meeting in New York; the Association’s new fundraising campaign for young scholars; and a fast-approaching deadline for the Spring Meeting’s the call for papers.
Calls for Submissions
Submission opportunities from around the field of Catholic Studies. Conferences, journals, awards, and more.
Call for Papers: U.S. Catholic Historian’s ‘Aesthetics: Art, Architecture, and Music’ Issue
Upcoming issue will examine the relationship of American Catholics and the Church with the arts.
Submission deadline: February 1, 2021
Announcements in Catholic History
Trailer: Revolution of The Heart: The Dorothy Day Story
A new film on Dorothy Day coming to Public Television in March 2020. This film will be featured on a panel at the November meeting of the American Academy of Religion.
‘Catholic School 1960’ Chronicles Pre-Vatican II Parochial School
A website compiled by a small team of researchers documenting a Brooklyn parochial school that the authors describe as “representative of lots of parochial schools in the years just before the Second Vatican Council.”
The Catholic News Archive: Three Centuries of Catholic Newspapers
The Catholic Research Resources Alliance has partnered with newspapers and diocesan archives to make available, free of charge, a fully searchable, open repository of historical Catholic news publications.