All posts tagged "anti-Catholicism"
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19.4K2MaineFr. John Bapst Survives Tar & Feathers, Becomes 1st Boston College President
John Bapst, a Swiss Jesuit priest, arrived in New York City in 1848 just as Know Nothing bigotry gathered force in the...
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6.6K1Arts and LeisureA Judge, A President, A Librarian and the Forbes Library
The town of Northampton, Mass., owes its extraordinary Forbes Library to an opinionated judge, a president of the United States and a...
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26.4K21MassachusettsAnti-Irish Know Nothing Mob Burns a Charlestown Convent in 1834
The Know Nothing Party first manifested itself in Massachusetts in 1834 with the burning and pillaging of a convent in Charlestown. It...
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