From the anti-Catholicism of the Know Nothings to the present-day Catholic nationalism in American politics, the Church and its leaders have left an indelible mark on society. Dr. William Cossen joins the show to explain how the idea of Catholic nationalism came to be in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Essential Reading:

William S. Cossen, Making Catholic America: Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2023).

Recommended Reading:

Maura Jane Farrelly, Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity (2012).

Jenny Franchot, Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (1994).

Jon Gjerde, Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America (2012).

John T. McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History (2003).

Kevin M. Schultz, Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Post-war America to Its Protestant Promise (2011).

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