Catholic sisters and North American history: the state of the field
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[1] University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
Township of Portage, Estados Unidos
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Resumen
I learned early in my graduate career how provocative Catholic sisters can be as subjects of historical study. I was taking a course in U.S. Catholic History taught by Jay P. Dolan, a historian at Notre Dame, who founded the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism (the center I now direct) and eventually became my doctoral advisor. I set out to write a paper about the founding of the first Catholic women’s colleges in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There were fourteen Catholic women’s colleges established in the United States by 1910, and most of them had made gradual transitions from secondary academies into four-year institutions chartered to award baccalaureate degrees. Trinity College in Washington, D.C., was an exception. In 1897, Sister Julia McGroarty of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur announced that they would open a brand-new college in the nation’s capital, one that would not evolve from a pre-existing academy.
