Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians have constru

Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians have constru

In The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism, Eileen P. Sullivan traces changes in nineteenth-century American Catholic cu

Offers one of the first comparative treatments of Protestant and Catholic history in nineteenth-century America.

This book explains why the United States, a country that values religious freedom, has persecuted some religious minorities while protecting others. It explores