" Emmett Curran's masterful treatment of American Catholicism in the Civil War era is the first
comprehensive history of the denomination in the North and South before, during, and after …

Studies of the Irish presence in America have tended to look to the main corridors of
emigration, and hence outside the American South. Yet the Irish constituted a significant …

Throughout the historiography of the American Civil War, there has been significant
research into the role of American Catholics, as historians such as William Kurtz and …

My dissertation contributes a significant rethinking of racial formation in the United States,
from a comparative and transnational perspective through a synthesis of seldom-connected …