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Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Prologue: All Should Have an Equal Chance -- Introduction -- 1. The Mexican-American War and Catholic Loyalty -- 2. The Remaking of the Catholic Community and Nativist Backlash -- 3. The Slavery Crisis and the Taney Court -- 4. The Election That Rent a Nation -- 5. War Fever -- 6. First Season of War -- 7. Grand Campaigns -- 8. Slavery and the Shifting Goals of the War -- 9. The War Comes to the Catholic Heartland -- 10. Emancipation -- 11. 1863: The War in the East -- 12. 1863: The War in the West -- 13. Defining a Nation amid an Unending War -- 14. 1864: Roads to Atlanta and Richmond -- 15. Catholic Agents and the International Dimensions of the War -- 16. Sherman, Ewing, and Sheridan Save Lincoln -- 17. Final Campaigns: From the Carolinas to Appomattox -- 18. Assassination and War's End -- 19. The Failure of Self-Reconstruction -- 20. The Remaking of the South -- 21. Reconstructions in West and North -- 22. The Making of the Catholic Ghetto -- 23. Redemption -- Epilogue: Catholic and American -- Aftermaths -- NOTES -- INDEX.

Curran reviews 'Re-Creating America: The Ethics of U.S. Immigration & Refugee Policy in a Christian Perspective,' by Dana W. Wilbanks.

"The intertwining of U.S. Catholicism and race-based slavery is a painful aspect of the Church's history. Many scholars have shied away from this uncomfortable topic, but in recent years a cadre of historians have studied Catholics' varied roles: as enslaved persons, slaveholders, defenders of slavery, and, in a few cases, advocates of abolition and emancipation. This collection of nine essays is divided into three sections: enslaved persons and slaveholders, debating abolition and emancipation, and historians and historiography. The studies, many of which are informed by recent archival discoveries, offer a model for historians seeking to understand the relationship between slavery and the Church, not only topically but in terms of methods, contexts, and resources. They contribute to a broader appreciation of religion's role in race-based slavery and, in doing so, will assist scholars, teachers, and students in the contemporary discussion involving slavery, racism, and their legacies"--