History of Catholic education in the United States
The history of Catholic education in the United States extends from the early colonial era in Louisiana and Maryland to the parochial school system set up in most parishes in the 19th century, to hundreds of colleges, all down to the present. == Colonial era == There was a small Catholic population in the English colonies, chiefly in Maryland.
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