Works:
Works by
(1824-1892)John Dawson Gilmary Shea
| 1852 | Boston Public Library. The city's central library is founded. It would house one of the most extensive collections of materials on colonial and Revolutionary history and feminist history. |
| 1852 | Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley. The Catholic historian's highly acclaimed history wins Shea invitations to join the historical societies of Wisconsin, Maryland, and Massachusetts, a distinction rarely bestowed on Catholics at the time. |
| 1886 | History of the Catholic Church in the U.S. Called by his biographers "the father of American Catholic history," Shea issues the first installment in his important four-volume history (completed in 1892). Shea, over a forty-year career, would produce more than 240 publications on the Catholic experience in America. |
