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Special Collections — First World War Resources

This guide highlights the World War I collections of the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives.

Handbook of the National Catholic War Council (1918)

by the Administrative Committee of Bishops, National Catholic War Council (NCWC)

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Pope’s war work. What has been done during the war by the Holy Father (1918)

Catholic prayer book for the Army and Navy (1917)

Pastoral letter of His Eminence Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, Belgium. [Reprinted from The New York Times] January 22, 1915

Letter of the bishops of Belgium to the bishops of Germany, Bavaria and Austria-Hungary (1916)

Appeal for religion in France (1919)

Patriotic duty facing the Americas (1916)

Peace action of Benedict XV (n. d.)

by Catholic Association for International Peace, History Committee

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Who goes there? A Christian soldier. A sketch of the life of Gen. de Sonis. (1918)

Published by the Central Bureau of the G.R.C. Central Society

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Catholic patriotism in the United States (1917)

Greater extension and development of church influence (1919)

Our Catholic citizens. An address delivered ... at Sixth Annual Convention of the Federation of Catholic Societies of Macoupin County (1915)

Advent pastoral of the Bishop of Savannah on ‘The Pope and the war.’ (1918)

Lenten pastoral of the Bishop of Savannah to the clergy and faithful of the diocese (1917)

Memorial to ‘The Nuns of the Battlefield.’ Speech ... in the House of Representative, Monday March 18, 1918.

Martyrs according to Bernard Shaw (1915)

Dream of the soldier saint (1915)

Christianity’s message in the hour of sorrow (1918)

For soldiers and sailors and those dependent upon them (1919)

by The Committee on Special War Activities, National Catholic War Council (NCWC)

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Girls’ welfare (1919)

by The Committee on Special War Activities, National Catholic War Council (NCWC)

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Land colonization. A general review of the problems and surveys of remedies. (1919)

by The Committee on Special War Activities, National Catholic War Council (NCWC)

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Outlines of a social service program for Catholic agencies (1919)

by The Committee on Special War Activities, National Catholic War Council (NCWC)

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Program for citizenship (1919)

by The Committee on Special War Activities, National Catholic War Council (NCWC)

https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/uie1v1/alma99186739021404103

Report of the Committee on Special War Activities (1919)

Social reconstruction: a general survey of the problems and survey of remedies (1919)

by The Committee on Special War Activities, National Catholic War Council (NCWC)

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Summary of report ... to January 1, 1919 (1919)

by The Committee on Special War Activities, National Catholic War Council (NCWC)

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Unemployment [WWI Veterans] (1919)

by The Committee on Special War Activities, National Catholic War Council (NCWC)

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Promise fulfilled (1920)

by The Committee on Special War Activities, National Catholic War Council (NCWC)

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God’s Armor: A Prayerbook for Soldiers (1917)

Our first duty: the Baccalaureate sermon preached at Trinity College June 3, 1917

St. John Capistran: a soldier saint of Italy. (1917)

St. Mary’s men in the Great War (1919)

by St. Mary’s College (Oakland, CA)

Note: Includes folded group photograph.

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