Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America by Kurtz, William B.

Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780823268863)

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Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America by Kurtz, William B.

Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America

$39.00
Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America by Kurtz, William B.

Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America

$39.00
Format: Paperback
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Anti-Catholicism has had a long presence in American history. The Civil War in 1861 gave Catholic Americans a chance to prove their patriotism once and for all. Exploring how Catholics sought to use their participation in the war to counteract religious and political nativism in the United States, Excommunicated from the Union reveals that while the war was an alienating experience for many of 200,000 Catholics who served, they still strove to construct a positive memory of their experiences in order to show that their religion was no barrier to their being loyal American citizens.

Author: William B. Kurtz
ISBN-10: 0823268861
ISBN-13: 9780823268863
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2015
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
By William B. Kurtz
By William B. Kurtz
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William Kurtz is an Assistant Editor at Documents Compass, a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He has published several articles and a book chapter on Catholics in the Civil War, including "Let Us Hear No More Nativism" (Civil War History, 2014), "William Starke Rosecrans" (U.S. Catholic Historian, 2013), and "This Most Unholy and Destructive War" (So Conceived and Dedicated, Fordham).

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