American Catholic History Booklist

A list of books I have read and will (hopefully) read in my pursuit of coming to know and understand the relationship between America and Catholicism

Books Owned:

• The American Catholic Experience by Jay P. Dolan

• In Search of an American Catholicism by Jay P. Dolan

• Catholic Revivalism by Jay P. Dolan [IN-PROGRESS]

• Saints of the American Wilderness by John A. O’Brien [READ]

• A Catholic Pilgrimage through American History

• Catholic Higher Education, Theology, and Academic Freedom by Charles E. Curran

• The Making of American Catholicism

• American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll

• Saints & Sinners

• The Catholic Church in America

• Parish Priest [READ]

• The Catholic Church in Maine

Books to Acquire:

• Missionary Bishop: Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans by Patrick Foley and Gilbert R. Cruz

• Through Fire and Flood: The Catholic Church in Frontier Texas, 1836-1900 by James Talmadge Moore

• Charles Carroll of Carrollton: American Revolutionary by Fr. Charles P Connor

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

• The Shepherd who Didn’t Run: Blessed Stanley Rother, Martyr from Oklahoma by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda

• American Catholics: A History by Leslie Woodcock Tentler

• American Catholics: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States by James J. Hennesey

• American Catholic History by Mark Massa and Catherine Osborne

I am open to any and all suggestions to add to my lists as well.