American Nativism, 1830-1845
A survey of Anti-Catholic Sentiment between 1830-1845.
The Catholic Question: Religious Liberty and JFK's Pursuit of the 1960 Democratic Presidential Nomination
Article by Thomas Carty in the Historian.
Intolerable Papists, Jesuits and Revolutionary Concord
An article discusssing how colonial fears of Catholic influence fuelled the American revolution.
Phantom Heresy?
A research paper on the "Americanist" heresy of the nineteenth century.
Pope Leo XIII's Message to America
An explanation of Leo XIII's apostolic letter, regarding the doctrine of latitudinarianism.
Religion and Ethnicity: The Irish Channel and Irish Identity in New Orleans
An examination of the role that religion played in shaping New Orleans' Irish ethnicity during the mid nineteenth century.
Roman Catholics and Immigration in 19th-Century America
Historical overview and resources for high school teachers; in TeacherServe.
Roman Catholics and the American Mainstream in the 20th Century
Historical overview and resources for high school teachers; in TeacherServe.
The Way of Love: Dorothy Day and the American Right.
Article by Bill Kauffman in Whole Earth which suggests that the Catholic Worker Movement is misunderstood on the left of politics and has a better home on the traditionalist right.
Why Study History?
Article in Journal of Texas Catholic History and Culture by John Tracy Ellis. "If secular history has suffered a woeful decline in the United States since the 1950s, the history of the Catholic Church has in general fared no better."
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