Primary Sources: The 1940s: Religion

This site includes : Thirty-six articles written in 1916-1917 for the socialist paper The New York Call; a complete set of Dorothy Day's articles that appeared in The Catholic Worker newspaper from its beginnings in 1933 until her death in 1980; the text of four books: The Eleventh Virgin (1924), From Union Square to Rome (1938), House of Hospitality (1939), and On Pilgrimage (1948) and selected articles from other publications. Coverage ranges from the 1910s-1980s. Use the browse by date feature to locate speeches from a certain decade.

"The court held that the First Amendment's prohibition against the establishment of religion, made effective as to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment, forbade students of public schools from electing to take courses in religious education even with the approval of their parents."

"was an important voice in the early years of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in its vigorous opposition to modernism and its proclamation and defense of Reformed orthodoxy."