Making Catholic America: Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Winner of the Christopher J. Kauffman Prize in U.S. Catholic History of the American Catholic Historical Association

In Making Catholic America, William S. Cossen shows how Catholic men and women worked to prove themselves to be model American citizens in the decades between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Far from being outsiders in American history, Catholics took command of public life in the early twentieth century, claiming leadership in the growing American nation. They produce...