By Kevin Schmiesing
Editor Kevin Schmiesing has amassed a unique workforce of students who, in quite a few methods, name into query traditional tale traces via highlighting formerly missed Catholic rules and participants. outfitted on plentiful facts and utilizing willing perception, every one essay is the results of state of the art learn in fields starting from old learn on Puritan New England and the antebellum South to the historical past of abortion to the twentieth-century papacy.
Students and students of non secular historical past, Catholic historians, and someone attracted to the intersection of faith and historical past will all locate the following a lot to interest—and perhaps even surprise—in the chapters' arguments about the deficiencies of history's dominant narratives. The volume's concentrate on the background of Catholics within the usa makes it crucial analyzing for someone trying to comprehend where of Catholicism within the American tale.
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