The middle of the 19th century was a time of immense demographic, economic, and social change in the United States.  Foremost among these changes was a wave of immigration that remade the economic and political landscape of the country.  We invite Dr. Maureen Fitzgerald, an associate professor of history at the College of William & Mary, to discuss the little known history of how Irish Catholic nuns helped shepherd immigrants into this new and changing environment, and how those nuns, in...

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