Voices from \The cheap seats\" : popular American reactions to issues raised in the papal encyclical Testem Benevolentiae 1899 : a discussion of contemporary newspaper articles reacting to the \"Americanist Crisis\" of 1899 as preserved in the Paulist Archives Washington DC"

The focus of this thesis, is a collection of contemporary clippings about the Americanist controversy which were preserved in the 52nd Street Paulist Library in New York City and thereafter moved to the Paulist Archives attached to the Order's institute near American University in Washington DC. Many clippings in the collection, ordered chronologically by anonymous Brothers, are simply record pieces abstracting various speeches and epistles on the Americanist issue, or straightforward reportage on unfolding events which tell us only what is covered better in histories of the era. SECTION ONE - AMERICANISM: THE NATIONAL CONTEXT SECTION TWO - THE PAULIST CLIPPINGS SECTION THREE - AFTERMATH AT THE TOP, CONSEQUENCES AT THE BOTTOM