Native American Boarding Schools & Religious Archives

A brief resource guide from Native American and Catholic archivists.

Catholic Historical Review

The CHR is the official organ of the ACHA. Members have unlimited access to the electronic version and its full archives.

ACHA News & Announcements

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ACHA Adopts Constitutional Amendments

Revisions allow for more online activity, clearer delineation of administrative roles.

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AHA Submission Deadline for Annual Meeting Extended to March 6

The American Historical Association has extended its submission deadline to March 6. The deadline for submissions to the ACHA remains March 15.

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Native American Boarding School Project Update: Individual Grants Awarded to Scholars

The ACHA has begun awarding of individual grants as part of its project to reckon with the history of the Catholic Church’s involvement with Native American boarding schools. Learn about the recipients and their work.

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Margaret Meserve Receives Marraro Prize for Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome

Meserve’s work examines the publication of news, information, propaganda, and disinformation in Rome in the first decades after the arrival of print

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Richard Yoder Receives 2022 John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award

Ph.D. candidate in History at Penn State University honored for his queer analysis of the 18th-century convulsionnaires.

Calendar Deadlines & Events

Davis Prize Deadline

The Cyprian Davis Prize recognizes works in progress that promise to make significant contributions to the study of the Black Catholic experience in North America and the Caribbean from the colonial period to the 20th century.

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Calls for Submissions

Submission opportunities from around the field of Catholic Studies. Conferences, journals, awards, and more.

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Virginia Museum of History & Culture Opens Applications for Research Fellowships

The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is accepting applications for research fellowships of up to three weeks a year to promote the interpretation of Virginia and access to its collections with a weekly stipend of $1,000 and $500 for local mileage.

Application deadline:  January 27, 2023.

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Call for Papers: U.S. Catholic Historian’s ‘U.S. Catholic Historiography’ Issue

Upcoming issue will examine U.S. Catholic historiography.

Submission deadline: November 1, 2022

Announcements in Catholic History

The Archivist’s Nook: Christopher J. Kauffman – American Catholic Historian

From the CUA University Libraries blog: Tricia Pyne takes a look at the life and scholarship of Christopher J. Kauffman, a giant in the field of Catholic studies, whose career spanned generations. After his death in 2018, the ACHA established an award in his honor, which is currently in the process of being endowed.

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.”