Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause
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Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause

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eBook - ePub

Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause

About this book

How a key period in American Catholic history connects with contemporary populism

Catholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the war's evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics played decisive roles in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble Southern fight for freedom, not caused by secession to preserve slavery.

Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause sheds light on the surprising legacy of white American Catholics during and after the war years. Curran also explores other topics, such as church-state relations, anti-Catholic nativism, chaplains and nun nurses in wartime, the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Catholic colleges, and Catholic prisoners of war.

General readers, scholars, and students interested in the Civil War era and the history of American Catholicism will benefit from a deeper understanding of this history and how it predisposed conservative Catholics to respond positively to today's populist movement, which brought about the election of Donald Trump.

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Information

Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Year
2026
Topic
History
eBook ISBN
9781647127060
Subtopic
American Civil War History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. 1. Introduction
  11. 2. Slavery in an Immigrant Church
  12. 3. Chaplains and Nurses to the Front
  13. 4. Catholic Higher Education in War and Peace
  14. 5. The War’s Impact on Church-State Relations
  15. 6. Hard War
  16. 7. Dissent, Disloyalty, and Assassination in the Catholic Heartland
  17. 8. The Enduring Lost Cause
  18. 9. Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. About the Author

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