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Georgetown Ignatian Society Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-061108
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the records of the Georgetown Ignatian Society and documents their efforts to have Georgetown University formally declared "un-Catholic" for their recognition of a pro-choice student group (GU Choice) and other offenses in the 1990s. It consists of their Petition to Cardinal Hickey, their Canon Law suits, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and anti-GU Choice buttons.
Dates:
1986 - 2003
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Subjects:
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects
Martin J. Quigley Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS142
Scope and Contents
The Martin J. Quigley Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and related printed ephemera regarding Quigley Publications, the Production Code, and the Legion of Decency. The papers, dating from 1917 to 1970, comprise 4.5 linear feet of material, arranged into 4 boxes and 260 folders. The collection is organized into series as follows:Series 1. Individual Correspondence. Files of correspondence from individuals arranged alphabetically. Includes notables such as...
Dates:
1917 - 1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Legion of Decency, through movie reviews and classifications, identified motion pictures deemed morally objectionable to the viewing public.
Patrick O'Mahony Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS221
Scope and Contents
Material in this collection centers around the human rights work of Fr. Patrick O'Mahony, a major focus of which was on ethical employment and working condition policies and practices of multi-national companies and subsidiaries in the Third World, including South Africa, South America, and countries in Asia. Fr. O'Mahony undertook a study of the moral implications of investments and the responsibilities of shareholders, particularly with regard to the policies of his own diocese of...
Dates:
1954 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Subjects:
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects
Found in Notes:
O'Mahony undertook a study of the moral implications of investments and the responsibilities of shareholders, particularly with regard to the policies of his own diocese of Birmingham.
World War II German Propaganda Pamphlets
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: GTM-150924
Scope and Contents
One bound volume containing 37 original documents and another 9 in facsimile, consisting of printed or mimeographed pamphlets, caricatures, pastiche of newspapers, and booklets. The items are written in French. The documents were created by the Germans and aimed at French soldiers and their families in the early months of World War II. The documents were intended to lower the morale of the French troops and make them question their motivation to participate in the war.The...
Dates:
1939 - 1940
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The documents were intended to lower the morale of the French troops and make them question their motivation to participate in the war.
Campus Ministry
Collection
Identifier: GTA-130708
Andre E. Hellegers Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-810811
Scope and Contents
Papers of Andre E. Hellegers, obstetrician, gynecologist and authority on bioethics. Bulk of collection concerns Hellergers' directorship of the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University (1971-1979). Includes articles by Hellegers and others on abortion, birth control, population research, and bioethics.
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Dates:
1963 - 1979
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Subjects:
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects
National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Records
Collection
Identifier: BRL-001
Abstract
The collection documents 43 meetings of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research held between 1974 and 1978 and includes briefing books, subject files, and transcripts from these meetings. The Executive’s Branch of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare established the group in 1974 and it is considered one of the first modern bioethics commissions.
Dates:
1974 - 1978
Found in:
Bioethics Research Library Archives
Found in Subjects:
Research -- Moral and ethical aspects
Robert Girardi Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS254
Scope and Contents
Contains the book manuscripts of novelist Robert Girardi. Includes many unpublished manuscripts of novels, novellas, and short stories, as well as screenplay scripts.
Dates:
1985 - 1999
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
A collection of short stories and novellas, entitled, "A Vaudeville of Devils: Seven Moral Tales" was published in 1999. Other short stories by Girardi have appeared in "The New Republic," "The Tri-Quarterly Review," and "The Washington Post."
Kathryn Arnow Collection of the President's Biomedical Research Panel Records
Collection — Box BRL Shared 007: [Barcode: 39020028494758], Folder: 1-4
Identifier: BRL-022
Abstract
The collection consists of records related to the President's Biomedical Research Panel (PBRP), including its final report (with Appendix A and C), the Analysis of Selected Biomedical Research Programs (2 volumes), and summary meeting minutes (1975-1976). The records belonged to Kathryn Arnow, who was a health policy analyst and Chief of the Program Planning Branch in the office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health in the 1970s.
Dates:
1975 - 1976
Found in:
Bioethics Research Library Archives
Found in Subjects:
Research -- Moral and ethical aspects
Warren T. Reich Papers
Collection
Identifier: BRL-005
Abstract
The collection contains the files of Warren Reich, dating from 1958 to 1999. It includes records of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (particularly funding and planning documents), files on bioethics and medical humanities courses taught at Georgetown University, research files on Andre Hellegers and the history of bioethics, documents related to the Narrative Bioethics Seminar at Hiram College, and professional correspondence. It also contains Andre Hellegers documents that had been collected...
Dates:
Existence: 1958 - 1999
Found in:
Bioethics Research Library Archives
Found in Notes:
From 1962 to 1971 Professor Reich taught moral theology, principally at the Catholic University of America; he was also a founding professor of the Washington Theological Union.
Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics Records
Collection
Identifier: BRL-037
Abstract
The Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics Records consist of conference, meeting, event files, reports, and other materials which document the cemter's mission of conducting teaching, conducting research, and providing consultation in clinical ethics.
Dates:
1991 - 2020
Found in:
Bioethics Research Library Archives
Found in Notes:
The PCCB’s mission is teaching, research, and consultation in clinical ethics following the Catholic medical moral tradition. Activities of the PCCB include ethics rounds, resident education, mentoring of graduate students, and continuing medical education.
Daniel A. Lord, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS66
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Daniel A. Lord, S.J., Papers contain a large collection of typed manuscripts that were published as books, pamphlets,and articles. A number of these latter publications, along with an abundance of newspaper and magazine clippings of Lord's work, are also in the collection. In addition to Lord's written output for publication, the collection contains a modest amount of correspondence, as well as some photographs, souvenirs, and sound recordings deriving from Lord's activities. These items...
Dates:
1909 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1955
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
., perhaps mid-20th century American Catholicism's most widely recognized producer of popular religious literature, was a prolific writer whose work reflected and responded to the sometimes brusque social upheavals and moral uncertainties of the times. Born in Chicago April 23, 1888, Lord was already an experienced dramatist by the time of his graduation from Loyola University in 1909, immediately following which he entered the Society of Jesus at St.
Russell B. Shaw Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-890502
Collection level scope and contents note
The Russell B. Shaw Papers comprise 4.5 linear feet consisting of 43 folders arranged in three boxes. The papers consist almost exclusively of manuscripts of eight books written by Shaw and two books co-authored by C. A. Koob and Germain Grisez.
Dates:
1959 - 1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1974 Shaw co-authored Beyond the New Morality with Germain Grisez, which came out in second and third editions (1980, 1988).
John Early, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTA-GAMMS22
Scope and Contents
The John Early, SJ Papers include a diary from his second presidency at Georgetown College (1870-1873) along with correspondence, spiritual writings and notes, and printed material. Of note within the correspondence are letters describing the Civil War’s impact on the school.
Dates:
1834 - 1873
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
After his ordination at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown (1845), he remained at the college as a lecturer in logic, metaphysics, and moral philosophy at Georgetown while simultaneously attending the Jesuit mission in Laurel, Maryland, known as “the Factory” (1845-1847).
Thomas Merton - Edward Rice Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS197
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection contains thirteen letters of the correspondence between the Trappist monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) and the writer, artist, and photographer Edward Rice (1918- ), written between the years 1959-1967.
Dates:
1959 - 1967
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His friend Jim Forest of 'The Catholic Worker,' and a friend of Thomas Merton's, referred to this period in Merton's life as one when he reentered the world from his previous cloistered existence in the monastery at Gethsemani and, through his writings, became actively engaged in advancing the public discourse on the great moral issues of that age. It certainly was his most prolific, with Merton producing scores of articles, reviews, and books, along with maintaining a large correspondence.
LeRoy Walters Papers
Collection
Identifier: BRL-036
Abstract
The collection consists of Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) records that were created and/or maintained by LeRoy Walters. Walters joined the KIE as one of its first scholars, served as Director of the Bioethics Center from 1971 to 1993, and as Director of KIE from 1996 to 2000. The records primarily document establisment and development of the KIE, its library, and various bioethics information retrieval projects over the years. The collection also includes some of Walters teaching files,...
Dates:
1969 - 2021
Found in:
Bioethics Research Library Archives
Found in Subjects:
Genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects
Hilaire Belloc - Elizabeth Belloc collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS202
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Hilaire Belloc-Elizabeth Belloc CorrespondenceThis collection contains the correspondence sent by Hilaire Belloc to his
daughter Elizabeth over the period 1932-1944. Hilaire was 62 at the start
of this correspondence and entering the final stages of his career. He
was plagued increasingly with ill-health over the course of this
correspondence, and there is frequent reference to his suffering from flus, fatigue, and difficulties with his handwriting. In 1942 he suffered a...
Dates:
1934-1944
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
While Hilaire willingly accepted his new position
of providing emotional support and moral guidance to the family, he was
clearly never comfortable with the day-to-day responsibilities of raising a
family and grew dependent on his eldest daughter Eleanor for assistance.
Alexander Orlov Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS432
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Alexander Orlov Papers contain selected correspondence and printed materials of Alexander Orlov, the highest-ranking Soviet intelligence officer to ever defect to the West. The correspondence in the collection is devoted entirely to the release of Orlov's first book, "The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes" (1954), including signed letters from former President Herbert Hoover, Ambassador William Bullitt, and the editors of the "Saturday Evening Post" and "Reader's Digest"....
Dates:
1953 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1954
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
It was there that Orlov aided Stalin in a multitude of crimes, including the theft of over $600 million in gold from the fledgling Spanish republic.
Orlov's growing moral revulsion to Stalin's terror tactics, summary executions, and secret trials, however, provoked a break with the Soviet government in July of 1938.
Orlov's growing moral revulsion to Stalin's terror tactics, summary executions, and secret trials, however, provoked a break with the Soviet government in July of 1938.
William DuBourg Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTA-820101
Scope and Contents
The William DuBourg Papers contain correspondence, invoices, and other documents dating between 1796, the year DuBourg assumed the presidency of Georgetown College, and 1833, the year of his death.The bulk of the papers dates from 1796 to 1798, the period of his Georgetown College presidency, and reflect the role of the president at that time as a procurer of goods needed by the institution. Letters and accompanying invoices itemize books ordered by DuBourg for the College...
Dates:
1796 - 1833; Majority of material found within 1796 - 1798
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
During his tenure, he expanded the faculty by adding sixteen new teachers; broadened the curriculum to include history, moral and natural philosophy, music, and Spanish; adopted a seal modeled on the Great Seal of the US; and introduced student uniforms.
Edward P. Gazur papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS352
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Edward P. Gazur Papers (1 Box, 1.5 linear feet) consist of a typed manuscript by Edward P. Gazur entitled, "Me and the KGB General: The Secret Odyssey of KGB Master Spy Alexander Orlov." The manuscript is divided into 27 chapters, and also includes introductory material, a prologue, a postcript, and what Gazur calls a "Basic Intelligence Primer," containing a brief history of Russian intelligence operations and common terms used by agents. The manuscript was written between 1999 and...
Dates:
1999-2001
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
It was there that Orlov aided Stalin in a multitude of crimes, including the theft of over $600 million in gold from the fledgling Spanish republic. Orlov's growing moral revulsion to Stalin's terror tactics, summary executions, and secret trials, however, provoked a break with the Soviet governmnet in July of 1938.