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2012 meeting was held March 23-24 in New Orleans and was jointly sponsored by Tulane and Loyola Universities.

UPDATE 1/30: Photo gallery added. Conference sees more than 150 members, 30 panels, 90 papers, and decides on Constitutional amendments.

ACHA awardees John O’Malley, S.J., Angelyn Dries, O.S.F., Ulrich Lehner, Stefania Tutino, and John Treanor were honored at the President’s Luncheon on Sat., Jan. 7, 2012, during the ACHA annual convention.

Kathleen Comerford on an academic’s ideal summertime itinerary: travel, archives, and libraries.

As 2011 comes to and end and so, too, my term in office, I write to ask for your continued support of the American Catholic Historical Association. This past year has been quite eventful…

Trevor John Kilgore, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, explores the effects of Vatican II and the “Long Sixties” in postwar Italy.

Brandeis graduate student Kevin Doyle writes about a long-forgotten anti-Catholic holiday in Colonial America.

ACHA President Larissa Juliet Taylor reflects on the Boston meeting, her new position as president, the upcoming spring conference in Toronto, and the year ahead for the Association.

Monica Mercado and Sheila Nowinski are the first to be honored with awards for members pursuing graduate studies.

Later this month, the elective ballot will go out for two open seats on the Executive Council of the Association for a term of three years. The Council is composed of the officers of the Association together with six delegates at large who are vested with the management of the ACHA. Three of the four candidates have provided a statement about the election.

A first look at the upcoming book by Debra Campbell of Colby College.

The two candidates for the office of Vice President 2011 (President 2012) are Thomas F.X. Noble, chair of the Department of History, the University of Notre Dame and Francis Christopher Oakley, Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Fellow, the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College.

G. P. Fogarty, S.J.: The Archivio Segreto Vaticano (ASV), the Vatican Secret Archives! Even the term sounds ominous. Much of this image stems from the name of this collection of documents—“Secret” here does not mean what English speakers mean; rather it pertains to the secretariat, to what has been set aside or preserved for the use of the pope and his advisers.

Leigh Ann Craig of Virginia Commonwealth University explores women’s places and roles and medieval Christendom and finds that even in this period, cultural mores were abstract

Carol K. Coburn of Avila University on Catholic history in the public sphere–in museums, on TV, and on the Web.

Sixty-six historians gathered at the Friend Center at Princeton University for the 2010 spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association earlier this month. Read the recap and view a photo gallery.