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Bibliography of Catholics and the American Founding
These books deal with subjects such as Catholic figures from the Founding era, the role of Catholics in the Revolution and the early years of the United States, and the relationship between Catholic thought and the political philosophy of the Founding.
Biographies
D. Abodaher, Warrior on Two Continents: Thaddeus Kosciuszko
B. Birzer, American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll
J. Dispenza, The Forgotten Patriot: A Story of Father Pierre Gibault
J. Donnelly, Pierre Gibault, Missionary, 1737-1802
M.I.J. Griffin, Thomas FitzSimons: Pennsylvania's Catholic Signer of the Constitution of the United States
J. Gurn, Commodore John Barry Father of the American Navy
C.W Heathcote, General Stephen Moylan - A Trusted Officer of the Revolution
S. McDermott, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Faithful Revolutionary
L. Szcymanski, Casimir Pulaski: A Hero of the American Revolution
Catholics/Catholicism and the Revolution/Founding Era
M. Bunson, Founding of faith: Catholics in the American revolutionary era
F. Cogliano, No King, No Popery : Anti-Catholicism in Revolutionary New England
D. D'Elia, Spirits Of '76 : Catholic Inquiry
M.J. Farrelly, Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity
M.I.J. Griffin, "The Anti-Catholic Spirit of the Revolution," American Catholic Historical Researches 6 (October 1889)
M.I.J. Griffin, Catholics and the American revolution
M.I.J. Griffin, "The Words of the Declaration of Independence...Traced to Pope Bonficace VIII," American Catholic Historical Researches 21 (October 1904)
G. Hunt, "The Virginia Declaration of Rights and Cardinal Bellarmine," Catholic Historical Review 3 (October 1917)
J.M. Ives, "St. Thomas Aquinas and the Constitution," Thought 12 (December 1937)
M.V. Kelly, "What Constitutional Liberty Owes to Religious Orders," American Catholic Quarterly Review 43 (October 1918)
C.H. Metzger, The Quebec Act;: A primary cause of the American Revolution
M. Millar, "The Philosophy of the Constitution," Thought 13 (March 1938)
J. Rager, "Catholic Sources and the Declaration of Independence," Catholic Mind, July 8, 1930
J.J. Walsh, "Foregleams of the Declaration of Independence in the Thirteenth Century," Records of the American Catholic Historical Society 19 (1908)
F. Zwierlein, "End of No-Popery in Continental Congress," Thought 1 (December 1936)