The history of the American labor movement, with its British antecedents and its evolutionary relationship with the Roman Catholic Church, has been a major focus of Catholic U’s Special Collections, including the University Archives and American Catholic History Research Center, for more than three quarters of a century.  Testament to this effort is displayed online Read More

Even though he had impacted the lives of generations of my family who labored in the coal mines of England, Scotland, and Pennsylvania, John Brophy is the most important labor leader nobody knows. I certainly did not before I deposited myself in the Catholic University Archives, home of Brophy’s Papers, in 1989. Among mining families, Read More