Pat McNamara
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EmailPat received his Ph.D. from Catholic University of American in Washington, D.C. A native of Queens, New York, Dr. Pat McNamara is a published historian. His books include A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and The Politics of American Anticommunism (2005); The Tablet: The First Hundred Years (2008); and Diocese of Immigrants: The Brooklyn Catholic Experience, 1853-2003 (2004). Pat has appeared in numerous publications, writing on American Catholic history. Pat has taught at St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, was an archivist for the Brooklyn Diocese for ten years, and in 2008 was a consultant for the Museum of the City of New York's exhibit Catholics in New York.
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Recent Articles
She fled the violence of the Bolsheviks, but found that advocating Civil Rights could be as deadly as revolutionary Russia. Read More »
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