Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 1763–1939

Matteo Binasco was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cushwa Center at the University of Notre Dame from 2014 to 2017, and is now an adjunct professor at the Università per Stranieri di Siena and at the Università degli Studi di Genova.Kathleen Sprows Cummings is director of the Cushwa Center and an associate professor of history and American studies at the University of Notre Dame.

"The labors of Binasco and his colleagues have produced a monumental work that serves as an effective reference tool for furthering scholarship in American Catholic history." —Reading Religion"In her Introduction, Kathleen Sprows Cummings reveals that the ball for this excellent work started rolling at a 2014 conference in Italy sponsored by Notre Dame's Cushwa Center and the Università della Tuscia. Two very useful chapters follow her Introduction—one by Luca Codignola and Matteo Sanfilippo, and the other by Binasco that provide useful historic and historiographic contexts for the project." —American Catholic Studies"This volume will be a boon to new areas of research in the fields of transatlantic studies, Catholic studies, and global history." —Catholic Library World"This thoughtful and thorough book emerged from a 2014 conference in Rome sponsored by the University of Notre Dame's Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. . . . With his survey of sixty archives and libraries in Rome and the Vatican, [Matteo] Binasco has answered so many questions, and research travel budgets will never be the same." —Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu"Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 1763–1939 is an invaluable addition to the reference literature on American Catholicism. As the foreword notes, no other reference work covers the subjects and collections this volume does." —Choice"The author must have pounded the pavement (or cobblestones) of Rome to gather this data. This guide provides basic information in a concise manner so that researchers can plan and utilize well their time in Rome." —Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., curator of the Avery Cardinal Dulles Papers, Fordham University"Matteo Binasco's Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 1763–1939 is the historian's GPS for American Catholic archives in Rome. Binasco has produced a magisterial book for the historian of American Catholicism, finally giving us a comprehensive, detailed, and expert mapping of the American sources. The archives catalogued in this book, many of them containing files never reviewed by American Catholic historians, should compel new reflections, perspectives, and directions for research. As American Catholic historiography moves from national to global, this resource will be an invaluable tool for graduate students, professors, writers, and archivists." —Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., Boston College"This is a fine piece of work: well written, superbly organized, and offering concrete guidance to scholars seeking to work in Roman archives. The author and the Cushwa Center, which commissioned this project, have made a signal contribution to the desire to 'transnationalize' the history of American Catholicism. The work is excellent; preparing a researcher to make maximum use of funds and time abroad is one of its great gifts." —Steven M. Avella, Marquette University

• Foreword: Toward a Transatlantic Approach to US Catholic HistoryIntroduction: A Key Tool for the Study of American CatholicismPreface: Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism: A Different Perspective1. Archives of the Holy See2. Archives of Religious Orders3. Archives of Religious Colleges4. Other Civil and Religious Archives5. Libraries6. Sources for the History of Italian Immigration to the United StatesAcknowledgementsAppendix