Records, 1926-1989.

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Records, 1926-1989.

Editorial correspondence (1976-1989), original manuscripts accepted for publication (1967-1984), unused articles (1979-1983), financial records (1926-1978), subscription lists (1979 and 1982-1983), and photographs. Also material on the Charles E. Curran controversy, Synods of Bishops (1984-1989), and editorial correspondence (1938) relating to the journal's controversial stand on the Spanish Civil War, along with copies of speeches and biographical notes (ca. 1930) by Michael Williams, one of the founders and first editor of Commonweal. Principal correspondents include staff members James O'Gara, Edward S. Skillin, John Deedy, and Wilfrid Sheed, and contributors Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Phil Berryman, James Burtchaell, Bernard Cooke, Robert F. Drinan, John Druska, John Tracy Ellis, Andrew Greeley. Mary Gordon, Michael Harrington, Robert Hoyt, George G. Higgins, Eugene Kennedy, Saul Maloff, Martin Marty, Carey McWilliams, Abigail McCarthy, Michael Novak, David Riesman, Philip Scharper, William V. Shannon, and Gordon Zahn. Much of the editorial correspondence is routine, such as requests for book reviews.

30 photographs.5 linear in. of printed material.

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Drinan, Robert Frederick, 1920-2007

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Robert Frederick Drinan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 15, 1920, to James John and Ann Mary (Flanagan) Drinan. He graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1938 and entered Boston College the same year. He earned his B.A. from Boston College in 1942, later that year entering the Society of Jesus, though he was not ordained until 1953. In the intervening years, Drinan pursued a legal education and earned a M.A. from Boston College in 1947 as well as two law degrees from Georgetown U...

Riesman, David, 1909-2002

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David Riesman (born September 22, 1909, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.-died May 10, 2002, Binghamton, New York) was an American sociologist, attorney, writer, and educator. He is best known as the author of The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character (with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer, 1950), an examination of post-WWII American society. The book struck a chord with readers and became a bestseller, contributing the terms "inner-directed," "outer-directed," and "tradition-...

Sheed, Wilfrid.

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Maloff, Saul

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American author, teacher, editor, and consultant; b. 1922. From the description of Saul Maloff collection, 1964-1970. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70967174 ...

Higgins, George, 1916-2002

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Novak, Michael.

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Druska, John.

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McCarthy, Abigail Q. (Abigail Quigley)

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Cooke, Bernard J., 1922-

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Berrigan, Philip

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Peace activist. From the description of Oral history interview with Philip Berrigan, 1985. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742671 Philip Berrigan is a political activist who was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War. Berrigan was born in 1923, became active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and entered into acts of civil disobedience to protest war and the production of nuclear weapons. From...

Skillin, Edward S.

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Gordon, Mary, 1949-....

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Scharper, Philip J.

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Williams, Michael, 1878-1950

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Hoyt, Robert G.

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McWilliams, Carey, 1905-1980

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Carey McWilliams was born December 13, 1905 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He completed his Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California in 1927. From 1927-1938, McWilliams was an attorney at the law firm Black, Hammack in Los Angeles. In 1938, he was appointed as Chief of the Division of Immigration and Housing of the State of California, a position he kept until 1942. During the period from 1945-1955, he began his long association with The Nation, becoming successively contribut...

Burtchaell, James Tunstead.

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O'Gara, James C.

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Marty, Martin E., 1928-....

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Shannon, William Vincent

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The office of the state agent and commissary of stores was created by an ordinance passed by the third revolutionary convention on August 21, 1775. In 1777 the office was divided, and different persons were appointed state agent and commissary of stores. William Armistead, who served as commissary of stores until the office was discontinued in February 1782, was responsible for the storage and distribution of supplies acquired by the state agent's office for the troops in the Illinois country, i...

Greeley, Andrew M., 1928-2013

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Contemporary American author of fiction, mystery, science fiction, religion, and screenplays. Also a priest and professor. From the description of [Papers], 1985-1988 / Andrew M. Greeley. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 41576597 Andrew Moran Greeley was born in Oak Park, IL, February 5, 1928 to Andrew T. (corporate executive) and Grace (McNichols) Greeley. He received a bachelor's degree in 1950 from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary and a licentiate in sac...

Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989?

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Michael Harrington (1928-1989), a U.S. socialist writer and political leader, best known as the author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), and as the founder and leader of Democratic Socialists of America, the U.S. affiliate to the Socialist International, was born in St. Louis, received a Jesuit secondary education, graduated from Holy Cross College in 1947 and, after a brief interval at Yale Law School, received a MA degree in English from the University of ...

Curran, Charles E.

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Berrigan, Daniel.

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Daniel Berrigan is a Catholic priest associated with peace and social justice movements throughout his life. A believer in non-violent civil disobedience, he has been arrested and imprisoned numerous times. He is most noted for his leadership of opposition to the Viet Nam war, but his work did not begin or end there. From the description of Daniel Berrigan scrapbook, 1930-1950. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64692915 The brothers Daniel Berrigan (born 1921...

Berryman, Philip.

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Zahn, Gordon C. (Gordon Charles), 1918-2007

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Deedy, John G.

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Ellis, John Tracy, 1905-1992

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Born 30 July 1905 in Illinois, Monsignor Ellis received his A.B. from St. Viator College in 1927 and his A.M. and Ph. D. from the Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1928 and 1930 respectively. He taught at St. Viator, 1930-1932, and the College of St. Theresa, 1932-1934, before returning to CUA to enter the Sulpician Seminary. Ordained a priest in 1938, he also became an Instructor in the CUA history department. In 1947 he became ordinary professor of church history. In addition to teaching...

Kennedy, Eugene C.

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Corporal, United States Army; member, 303rd Engineer Regiment, 1918-1919. From the description of Eugene Kennedy papers, 1918-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871633 Author and professor of psychology at Loyola University of Chicago. Born in New York, Kennedy studied at Maryknoll College and Maryknoll Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He was ordained a Maryknoll priest in 1955 and earned a Ph. D. from Catholic University (1962). He was laicized in 1977. He m...