Author: John HughesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The Complete Works of the Most Rev. John Hughes, Archibishop of New York
Complete Works of the Most Rev. John Hughes, Archibishop of New York
Author: John HughesDagger John
Author: John LougheryPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711075
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John’s College (now Fordham University), builder of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of parochial-school education, and American diplomat. As archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York in the 1840 and 1850s and the most famous Roman Catholic in America, Hughes defended Catholic institutions in a time of nativist bigotry and church burnings and worked tirelessly to help Irish Catholic immigrants find acceptance in their new homeland. His galvanizing and protecting work and pugnacious style earned him the epithet Dagger John. When the interests of his church and ethnic community were at stake, Hughes acted with purpose and clarity. In Dagger John, Loughery reveals Hughes’s life as it unfolded amid turbulent times for the religious and ethnic minority he represented. Hughes the public figure comes to the fore, illuminated by Loughery’s retelling of his interactions with, and responses to, every major figure of his era, including his critics (Walt Whitman, James Gordon Bennett, and Horace Greeley) and his admirers (Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln). Loughery peels back the layers of the public life of this complicated man, showing how he reveled in the controversies he provoked and believed he had lived to see many of his goals achieved until his dreams came crashing down during the Draft Riots of 1863 when violence set Manhattan ablaze. To know "Dagger" John Hughes is to understand the United States during a painful period of growth as the nation headed toward civil war. Dagger John’s successes and failures, his public relationships and private trials, and his legacy in the Irish Catholic community and beyond provide context and layers of detail for the larger history of a modern culture unfolding in his wake.
Complete Works of the Most Rev. John Hughes, D.D., Archbishop of New York
Author: John HughesPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Complete Works of the Most Rev. John Hughes, Archibishop of New York
Author: John HughesComplete Works of the Most Rev. John Hughes
Author: John HughesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752559985
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Complete Works of the Most Rev. John Hughes
Author: Abp. John HughesBishop John J. Hughes, His Church and the Coming of Age of New York's Catholic Irish
Author: Richard Daniel McCannPublisher: E-Booktime, LLC
ISBN: 9781608624461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Bishop John J. Hughes, His Church and the Coming of Age of New York's Catholic Irish traces key events in the transformation of the Catholic Church in New York and nationally as the result of the aggressive leadership of New York's fourth diocesan Bishop and first Archbishop, John J. Hughes. Hughes accomplished much for the Church through the building of a strong Catholic community spurred in large part from the massive number of Catholic Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine in Ireland. Though never far from controversy, Hughes, through emphasis on education and the establishment of a strong network of religious, charitable and social institutions, started his people and church on the road to political power and influence in 19th century America and beyond.
Complete Works of the Most Rev. John Hughes, D.D., Archbishop of New York
Author: John HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Dissenting Tradition in American Education
Author: James C. CarperPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820479200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and civic virtue. As was the case with dissenters from early American established churches, some citizens and religious minorities have dissented from the public school system, what historian Sidney Mead calls the country's «established church.» They have objected to the «orthodoxy» of the public school, compulsory taxation, and attempts to abolish their schools or bring them into conformity with the state school paradigm. The Dissenting Tradition in American Education recounts episodes of Catholic and Protestant nonconformity since the inception of public education, including the creation of Catholic and Protestant schools, homeschooling, conflicts regarding regulation of nonconforming schools, and controversy about the propositions of knowledge and dispositions of belief and value sanctioned by the state school. Such dissent suggests that Americans consider disestablishing the public school and ponder means of education more suited to their confessional pluralism and commitments to freedom of conscience, parental liberty, and educational justice.