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Huxley: None in Flaubert
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Lamy of Santa Fe
A friend recently passed along a biography of the French-born Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888): Pulitzer Prize (for History) winning author Paul Horgan’s…
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The Steepest Public Street
It’s not in San Francisco
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A sad anniversary
the death of Jack Kerouc in the middle ground between light and shadow
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Essay in Crisis Magazine
published today
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"gossip with footnotes"
From the dean of American church historians
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“John Adams Goes to Catholic Mass”
I want to direct your attention to this short but fascinating piece published yesterday in Emerging Revolutionary War Era, written by my friend and…
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1942 College Writing Prompts
Quick, get paper and pencil
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"The American bishop who flew too close to the sun"
This is risky: I may have posted too often about my biography of Bishop Broderick but this is too good to pass up.
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Al Attles (1936-2024)
Rest in peace
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Between Vanderbilt and Verdi
That’s where my short (144 page) biography of Edward Vattmann lands on the public library shelf.
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September 2024

Chaplain at Bethesda 1963
Father Bob Brengartner
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