Thomas A. DeMauro III is a graduate student currently attending Duquesne University in their public history program. While his personal research primarily deals with 20th century pop culture, his researching and writing skills are applicable to any historical topic and allow him to constantly expand his interests. Interning at the National Institute for Newman Studies sparked a fascination with the Catholic church’s relationship to the Reconstruction-era Southern United States and led to his eventual transcription of Bishop Herbert Vaughan’s journals of the period.
Cardinal Herbert Vaughan––most known for his tenure as Archbishop of Westminster, England, and for founding Saint Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill––journeyed to and across the Southern United States in 1872. He aimed to document the hindrances that could and did threaten the introduction and widespread dissemination of Catholicism in African American communities throughout the once-Confederate territories.
