TARA: Teaching and Research Archive for the History of Christianity
Sponsored by the American Society of Church History
The goal of the project is to uncover the history of the acquisition and use of Loyola’s original library books. It grew out of an initiative to digitally reconstruct the earliest surviving library catalogue of St Ignatius College (founded 1870), the forerunner to Loyola University Chicago.
The Catholica Collection makes available digital content of Catholic materials including books, journals, papers, and manuscripts dealing with the Roman Catholic Church in general, and in particular works created or published in the Americas. This includes a number of collections featuring periodicals, publications, references, personal papers, parish and diocese records, photographs, etc.
Digitized archive of periodicals, photographs, personal papers, church records, etc. frpm the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Goshen College, and the Mennonite Church USA Archives.
The Mennonite Library and Archives includes digitized photographs and other images and visual sources including drawings, ledgers, church records, choral books, etc. on Mennonite settlement in the US and Russia as well as missionary activity in Africa and the US among Native tribes.
Archives house the papers and organizational records of hundreds of historically significant Catholics and Catholic organizations, particularly those related to Catholic involvement in the history of American labor, as well as more than 5,000 museum objects.
African American Catholics of the United States contains over 200 images of African American clergy, religious, and laity, plus others in ministry to them, in parishes and schools, religious communities, and lay organizations since 1900. Archives staff selected the images from the records of the Black and Indian Mission Collection, the Catholic Negro-American Mission Board, and … Read more
Collection of digitized photographs from four smaller collections, taken by Catholic missionaries to Native groups, searchable together or individually.
The Classroom is a primary document site featuring a range of materials related to the American Catholic experience, organized into teaching-module “exhibits” including documents, photographs, and media.
Archive of digitized Catholic newspapers around the United States since 1831, and includes editorials, pictures, and advertisements as well as articles, all text searchable.