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One Hundred Years of Catholic Schools (1893–1993)

Bibliography and Further Reading

Baker, David P. and Cornelius Riordan. “The ‘eliting’ of the common American Catholic school and the national education crisis.” Phi Delta Kappan (Bloomington, IN) 80, no. 1 (September 1998): 16-23. Accessed January 6, 2021. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=eric&AN=EJ571794&site=ehost-live&custid=s8878750

Beutow, Harold A. The Catholic School: Its Roots, Identity, and Future. New York: Crossroad, 1988.

Beutow, Harold A. Of Singular Benefit: The Story of Catholic Education in the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

The Catholic Educational Exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893: Illustrative and Descriptive. Chicago: J.S. Hyland, 1896. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t1sg0mj4k

Fialka, John J. Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2004).

Greeley, Andrew M. “Catholic Schools: A Golden Twilight?” America 160, no. 5 (11 February 1989): 106, 108, 116-118. Accessed January 6, 2021. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=rfh&AN=CPLI0000144723&site=ehost-live&custid=s8878750

Heft, James. “Catholic Identity and the Future of Catholic Schools.” The Catholic Identity of Catholic Schools: Catholic Schools for the 21st Century. Washington, D.C.: National Catholic Education Association, 1991.

Hunt, Thomas C. and Timothy Walch, editors. Urban Catholic Education: Tales of Twelve American Cities. Notre Dame: Alliance for Catholic Education Press, 2010.

Johnson, George. “The Commission on American Citizenship of the Catholic University of America.” Journal of Educational Sociology 16, no. 6 (February 1943): 380-385. Accessed January 6, 2021. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2261778

Koob, C. Albert and Russell Shaw. S.O.S. for Catholic Schools: A Strategy for Future Service to Church and Nation. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.

Mazzenga, Maria. “The Archivist’s Nook: CUA + .EDU.” What’s Up (blog). May 26, 2016. Accessed January 6, 2021. https://www.lib.cua.edu/wordpress/newsevents/7923.

Mazzenga, Maria. “The Archivist’s Nook: The Significance of Eddie Patterson’s Friends.” What’s Up (blog). October 13, 2016. Accessed January 6, 2021. https://www.lib.cua.edu/wordpress/newsevents/8522.

Mazzenga, Maria. “More Democracy, More Religion: Baltimore’s Schools, Religious Pluralism, and the Second World War.” In One Hundred Years of Catholic Education: Historical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of the National Catholic Educational Association, edited by John Augenstein, Christopher J. Kauffman, and Robert J. Wister, 199-219. Washington, D.C.: National Catholic Educational Association, 2003.

McCluskey, Neil G. Catholic Viewpoint on Education. New York: Hanover House / Doubleday & Co., 1959.

McGreevy, John T. “Racial Justice and the People of God: The Second Vatican Council, the Civil Rights Movement, and American Catholics.” Religion and American Culture 2, no. 4 (Summer 1994): 221-254. Accessed January 11, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.1994.4.2.03a00040.

Murray, Paul T. “The Reverse Integration of St. Joseph’s School: An Alternate Path to Integrated Education.” The Alabama Review 73, no. 2 (April 2020): 118-148. Accessed January 6, 2021. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/catholic.edu?url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/756211

Noterman, Patrice M. “An Interpretive History of the Sister Formation Conference, 1954-1964.” Loyola University Chicago, 1988. Accessed January 11, 2021. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2563.

Nytroe, Sarah K. “Pulling Back the “Veil Which Now Covers Our Schools”: The Catholic Educational Exhibit, 1892–1893.” Church History and Religious Culture 93, no. 1 (1 January 2013): 29-55. Accessed January 6, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1163/18712428-13930103

Ospino, Hosffman and Patricia Weitzel-O’Neill. “Catholic Schools Serving Hispanic Families: Insights from the 2014 National Survey.” Journal of Catholic Education 19, no. 2 (January 2016): 54-80. Accessed January 6, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/joce.1902042016

Reck, Carleen. “Catholic Identity.” The Catholic Identity of Catholic Schools: Catholic Schools for the 21st Century. Washington, D.C.: National Catholic Education Association, 1991.

Ryan, Mary Perkins. Are Parochial Schools the Answer?: Catholic Education in the Light of the Council. New York: Guild Press, 1964.

Tentler, Leslie Woodcock. American Catholics: A History. Yale University Press, 2020.

Thompson, Margaret Susan. The History of Women Religious in the United States. Rockville, Maryland: Now You Know Media, 2009. Audio CD.

Walch, Timothy. Parish School: American Catholic Parochial Education from Colonial Times to the Present. Washington, D.C.: National Catholic Educational Association, 2003.