{"product_id":"catholics-the-civil-war-and-robert-emmett-curran-9781647127053","title":"Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow a key period in American Catholic history connects with contemporary populism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatholics fought on both sides of the American Civil War, but few supported the war's evolving aim of emancipating the enslaved. After the war, white Catholics played decisive roles in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble Southern fight for freedom, not caused by secession to preserve slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause sheds light on the surprising legacy of white American Catholics during and after the war years. Curran also explores other topics, such as church-state relations, anti-Catholic nativism, chaplains and nun nurses in wartime, the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Catholic colleges, and Catholic prisoners of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral readers, scholars, and students interested in the Civil War era and the history of American Catholicism will benefit from a deeper understanding of this history and how it predisposed conservative Catholics to respond positively to today's populist movement, which brought about the election of Donald Trump.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Emmett Curran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 164712705X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647127053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Georgetown University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Robert Emmett Curran","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437539471615,"sku":"9781647127053","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7534046-35e5-462b-9fc6-abaa9acf49b7.jpg?v=1777162507","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/catholics-the-civil-war-and-robert-emmett-curran-9781647127053","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}