American Catholics : A History.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: On the Fringes of Empire -- PROFILE: Eusebio Kino, S.J -- ONE: Spain's North American Frontier -- TWO: France in America -- THREE: Catholics in the British Colonies -- PART II: Growing with the Nation, 1815-1870 -- PROFILE: Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P -- FOUR: The Frontier Church -- FIVE: An Urban Stronghold -- SIX: Slavery and the Civil War -- PART III: A Turbulent Passage, 1871-1919 -- PROFILE: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, M.S.C -- SEVEN: Institutional Growing Pains -- EIGHT: A People Numerous and Varied -- NINE: "They Are Afraid of Democracy at Rome" -- PART IV: Exuberant Maturity, 1920-1962 -- PROFILE: John C. Cort -- TEN: This Confident Church -- ELEVEN: Catholic Minds: Education and Intellectual Life -- TWELVE: Public Catholicism: Politics and Social Movements -- PART V: A World Unbound, 1963-2015 -- PROFILE: Patricia Caron Crowley -- Thirteen: Something Like a Revolution -- Fourteen: Toward an Uncertain Future -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

A sweeping history of American Catholicism from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present.

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