Dr. Mary Beth Fraser Connolly

Ah, a new book has arrived. Congratulations to Joseph Mannard on his new book!

The Two Worlds of Ann Gertrude Wightt share.google/fbZIYqm5uggP...

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Here is some Sunshine
youtu.be/2UQP6asc8CI?... The latest from Joan Hutton.

This is the old St. Joseph Cemetery in Manchester, NH.

Pilgrimage accomplished. Visited Old St. Joseph Cemetery and the Sisters of Mercy graves this afternoon. This included Mother Francis Xavier Warde's grave and those of the first Sisters of Mercy at Manchester, NH.

2-year postdoc opportunity: FCJ Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Catholicism at Durham University durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” - The Scholarly Kitchen Grieving my father's death feels inextricably tangled with grieving the catastrophe overtaking the whole of our research infrastructure.

"My father, an early and prominent computer scientist, passed away more than two years ago. Since then I’ve been trying to make sense of how rapidly the world that helped make him, and in turn the one he helped shape, is unraveling." 1/ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/d...

A black and white photo of a toddler sitting next to a baby who is lying down, both looking curiously towards something out of frame.

26 June 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Helena Wilhelmina Polak, was born in Groningen.

In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection together with her younger brother Abraham.

I get a lot from my professional memberships, like the AHA, ACHS, and of course the spectacular, all the cool kids should join, @achahistory.bsky.social but the CHWR is something more. Cannot wait until next time. 2/2

The Conference on the History of Women Religious at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism ended just yesterday. I think I will be processing all that I saw, heard, and most importantly learned for a good while. 1/2

Check out the program: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://cushwa.nd.edu/assets/620001/chwr2025_program_final_web.pdf

#CHWR2025 1st full day! & we [really] begin! (Last night's keynote from Katharine Massam was super!] Today, 1st panels begin at 9am, I'm a chair. Later at 2pm I join @carmenmangion.bsky.social & Christopher Eads. Day ends w the work-in-progress film on Corita Kent! It is going to be #nuntastic.

In light of the Trump administration restricting access to trans-specific support on the national 988 suicide prevention hotline, I’m asking everyone to share this alternative loud and wide:

The Rainbow Youth Project is here.
There is always help.

Sr. Agatha O'Brien, Chicago RSMs to Sr. Elizabeth Strange, Pittsburgh RSMs, 1851.

"You need not caution me regarding any little remarks which you might make for to no one living [underlined in orig.] would I reveal them. I too have many things which I would like to speak to you of but yet it would not do to write about."

Oh, come on Mother Agatha! Spill! #nuntastic gossip.

I have a feeling that the assholes currently running Interior are going to regret this directive in the end. There are too many smart, vindictive supporters of national parks out there.

I just wish that park rangers were not caught in the cross-fire.

#supportNPS

Why, yes, I am having a fun morning doing #nuntastic research.

Recalling travel from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in Dec 1843, w 1 leg a 2-night journey by stagecoach, a "heavy clumsy concern," that fit 9 people (7 sisters & 2 men) a Sister of Mercy reported: "Passing the night in it was quite a penitential exercise."

Oh, sister, tell me more. #nuntastic

I love this photo! Florence Barry was amazing - more on her here: map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/items/show/311 @lselibrary.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social @ncronline.bsky.social @cushwa.bsky.social @mbfconnolly.bsky.social @achahistory.bsky.social

Tuesday, March 11, I will present for the Mercy Heritage Center.
My presentation is: "Willing to Engage in the American Mission": The Irish Sisters of Mercy in 1840s Pittsburgh and Chicago. This online presentation will be at 3pm Eastern/2pm Central. The Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/810…

So, there is a pomodoro timer? Is this a thing people use when writing?

The laying down of lights, and striking a new match. Trooper, transitions, and trying again

Here's a Sybstack worth following.

First day of @achahistory.bsky.social annual conference going quite well! #ACHA2025 must have had an awesome program coordinator @monicalmercado.bsky.social

Archivist and historians in conversation? Can they do that? Well, we do. Fun and helpful conversation had by all. #ACHA2025 #AHA25

Here we go, #ACHA2025 starting tomorrow! @achahistory.bsky.social

Follow UNSUNG HISTORY on your favorite podcast app A podcast about people and events in American history you may not know much about. Yet.

If you're traveling this week, spend the travel time learning history!

It is going to be, dare I say, #nuntastic? The program looks excellent!

Oh my stars, grades in. Wow.

In 1907, Eugene Debs joined the staff of Appeal to Reason, a Socialist newspaper based in Girard, Kansas. His wife Katherine formed personal and professional relationships with some of the women instrumental to the paper's success, especially Grace Babbitt Brewer, the head of the Appeal Army.

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle, by Shannen Dee Williams Shannen Dee Williams’s book looks directly at the history of anti-Black racism in the longer history of the American Catholic Church. This much-needed hist

Mary Beth Fraser Connolly @mbfconnolly.bsky.social reviews 'Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle', by Shannen Dee Williams
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