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Bibliography of American Catholic intellectual history

These books deal with subjects in intellectual history—the history of Catholic thought and scholarship.

Surveys

R.S. Appleby, P. Byrne ,W. Portier (eds.), Creative Fidelity: American Catholic Intellectual Traditions

M.M. Reher, Catholic Intellectual Life in America: A Historical Study of Persons and Movements

Specific Periods

R.S. Appleby, Church and Age Unite!: The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism

K. Schmiesing, American Catholic Intellectuals and the Dilemma of Dual Identities, 1895-1955

T. Woods, The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era 

Specific Topics

P. Allitt, Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome 

P. Allitt, Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950-1985 

J. Corrin, Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy  

P. D'Agostino, Rome in America : Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism 

D. D'Elia and P. Foley, eds., The Catholic As Historian

G. Fogarty, American Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A History from the Early Republic to Vatican II

P. Gleason, Contending With Modernity : Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century

J. McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History

S.Y. Mize, Joining the Revolution in Theology: The College Theology Society, 1954-2004

N. Salvatore, Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives

K. Schmiesing, Within the Market Strife : American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II