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| Published in 2000 |
The McGreal Center for Dominican Historical Studies, responsible for promoting the research and writing of the history of the Order of Preachers in the United States, provides a central depository for archival material from all of the congregations in the United States. In 1989 Sister Mary Nona McGreal, OP began the work of Project OPUS acquiring over 5,000 documents, resources and publications germane to the history of the Dominican Family in the United States. Her goal was to research, write and publish a two volume series called The Order of Preachers in the United States: A Family History. The first volume, Dominicans at Home in a Young Nation: 1786-1865 was published in 2000. The second volume Dominicans on Mission: 1865-1910, is in preparation now. Since Sister McGreal’s retirement in 2006, Janet Welsh, OP has directed the center now located at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.
