Readings in American Catholic History

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General surveys of American Catholic history

American Catholic intellectual history

Catholics and African Americans

Native Americans and Catholicism

American Catholic social thought

Catholics and Immigration

American Catholic Sisters

Catholics and the American Founding

American Catholic Hierarchy (Bishops)

Anti-Catholicism

Catholic Liturgy and Spirituality