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

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

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

For more than two hundred years American Catholics have struggled to reconcile their national and religious values. In this incisive and accessible account, dis

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