TARA: Teaching and Research Archive for the History of Christianity
Sponsored by the American Society of Church History
Visual presentation of photos showing the complex interaction or encounters between Basel Missionaries – usually Swiss or German – and West Africans, Indians, and Chinese between 1850 and 1950.
Highlights some of the rare and unique resources that are available as bibliographic citations and finding aids for the history of women religious through the Catholic Resource Research Alliance (CRRA)’s consortial database, the Catholic Portal.
The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame have several exhibits of material from their digital special collections, some Catholic-themed.
Using historical maps, books, objects, and textiles, Crossings and Dwellings tells the story of European Jesuits and women religious who arrived in America’s borderlands to serve indigenous and immigrant populations.
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.
Digitization of Galerie Illustrée de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris: 1893), the gallery contains 405 engravings of notable Jesuits from the 16th century to the 19th century.
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.
Holdings from the Vatican Library and document archives that have been digitized and made accessible.