American Catholics and the quest for equality in the Civil War era /
"Emmett Curran's masterful treatment of American Catholicism in the Civil War era is the first comprehensive history of the denomination in the North and South before, during, and after the war. It is the story of how the momentous developments of these decades impacted the Catholic commun...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: All should have an equal chance
- Introduction
- The Mexican-American War and Catholic loyalty
- The remaking of the Catholic community and nativist backlash
- The slavery crisis and the Taney Court
- The elction that rent a nation
- War fever
- First season of war
- Grand campaigns
- Slavery and the shifting goals of the war
- The war comes to the Catholic heartland
- Emancipation
- 1863 : the war in the East
- 1863 : the war in the West
- Defining a nation amid an undending war
- 1864 : roads to Atlanta and Richmond
- Catholic agents and the international dimensions of war
- Sherman, Ewing, and Sheridan save Lincoln
- Final campaigns : from the Carolinas to Appomattox
- Assassination and war's end
- The failure of self-reconstruction
- The remaking of the South
- Reconstructions in West and North
- The making of the Catholic ghetto
- Redemption
- Epilogue: Catholic and American
- Aftermaths/