American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era
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American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era

  1. 471 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

American Catholics and the Quest for Equality in the Civil War Era

About this book

Robert Emmett Curran's masterful treatment of American Catholicism in the Civil War era is the first comprehensive history of Roman Catholics in the North and South before, during, and after the war. Curran provides an in-depth look at how the momentous developments of these decades affected the entire Catholic community, including Black and indigenous Americans. He also explores the ways that Catholics contributed to the reshaping of a nation that was testing the fundamental proposition of equality set down by its founders. Ultimately, Curran concludes, the revolution that the war touched off remained unfinished, indeed was turned backward, in no small part by Catholics who marred their pursuit of equality with a truncated vision of who deserved to share in its realization.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. Prologue: All Should Have an Equal Chance
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. The Mexican-American War and Catholic Loyalty
  10. 2. The Remaking of the Catholic Community and Nativist Backlash
  11. 3. The Slavery Crisis and the Taney Court
  12. 4. The Election That Rent a Nation
  13. 5. War Fever
  14. 6. First Season of War
  15. 7. Grand Campaigns
  16. 8. Slavery and the Shifting Goals of the War
  17. 9. The War Comes to the Catholic Heartland
  18. 10. Emancipation
  19. 11. 1863: The War in the East
  20. 12. 1863: The War in the West
  21. 13. Defining a Nation amid an Unending War
  22. 14. 1864: Roads to Atlanta and Richmond
  23. 15. Catholic Agents and the International Dimensions of the War
  24. 16. Sherman, Ewing, and Sheridan Save Lincoln
  25. 17. Final Campaigns: From the Carolinas to Appomattox
  26. 18. Assassination and War’s End
  27. 19. The Failure of Self-Reconstruction
  28. 20. The Remaking of the South
  29. 21. Reconstructions in West and North
  30. 22. The Making of the Catholic Ghetto
  31. 23. Redemption
  32. Epilogue: Catholic and American
  33. Aftermaths
  34. NOTES
  35. INDEX