At the moment the biggest source of such secondary material is the WEB Catholic
Encyclopedia of 1917. Now in US public domain, this 1917 encyclopeadia is being made
available in its entirety on the World Wide Web. Although, occasionally, it can be a
partisan in its representation of historical events, for the most part the impartial
standards of scholarship were met, and its contributors were scholars in their fields. For
basic data and bibliography it is by far the most useful WWW resource. The main problem,
of course, is that it was finished in 1917 - its comments, and bibliographies, can never
thus be taken as the final word.
As they become available other secondary sources may be added to the Sourcebook.
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