Sixty years ago this October, a 13-car train pulled out of Union Station in Washington, D.C., headed south. It was the L.B.J. Special, named for its most important passenger, Lyndon B. Johnson, who was that year’s Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States.

Catholic homeschooling resources have historically offered a whitewashed, triumphalist account of history.

& you know how hard I’ve tried to not disappoint you

John D. Feerick’s memoir engages important chapters in American urban, intellectual and legal history.

It is some comfort to recall that Catholics have already survived many difficult periods like our own.

A conversation with NPR’s Scott Detrow and the hosts of Jesuitical.

Join the editor in chief of America magazine for a conversation in the comments section on Friday, Sept. 18, 1 to 2 p.m. ET, about the magazine’s coverage of this historic election.