LIBRARY
REL 455: American Catholicism 1775-1881: Immigration: 1820-1920
books and ebooks
The Irish Catholic Diaspora in America by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 0813208963Publication Date: 1997-12-01
A History of the Catholic Church in the American South, 1513-1900 by ISBN: 9780813035321Publication Date: 2011-06-12Print Books available to be borrowed (mailed)
American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era by Call Number: e-bookISBN: 0807860441Publication Date: 2003-04-03
American Catholics by ISBN: 0195029461Publication Date: 1981-12-10Selected Table of Content (you may ask to have a chapter emailed to you)
VIII The Failure of Carroll's Plans 89
IX The Era of the Common Man 101
X Immigrants Become the Church 116
XI Westward the Course of Empire 128
XII Abolition and Civil War 143
XIII Reconstruction 158
XIV The Gilded Age 172
XV Growing Pains in the Catholic Community 184
XVI The End of the Beginning 204
XVII So Certain and Set Apart 221
XVIII Catholicism Unbound: The Church of the Twenties 234
The Immigrants
Begining in the 1820s, large scale immigrantion from Ireland and other countries began to reshape and redefine the American Catholic Church. Enlightenment was on the wane; the Republican era was at its end; the parrish mission and evangelical Catholicism were in ascent. (Dolan, p44, 2002)
The biggest issues of the time leading up to the U.S. Civil War was Slavery and the supreme authority of the Catholic church over the laity. After the Civil War, the focus turned towards the temperance movement, the rights of women, and anti-immigrant feelings.
Bible Riots of 1844
Key People
Articles
Father Mathew's Disciples: American Catholic Support for Temperance, 1840-1920.
Growth of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States (1933 Thesis, ebook available through Google Scholar)
John Hughes and a Catholic Response to Slavery in Antebellum America
Abolitionists, Irish Immigrants, and the Dilemmas of Romantic Nationalism
Immigrants in the City: New York's Irish and German Catholics
Special Catholic Activities in War Service (WWI)
Catholic Southerners, Catholic Soldiers