... trajectory over the first few decades of the twentieth century. The chapter discusses the tensions between Catholics-as-Americans and Catholics-in-America operating as fundamental fissures running through the Gilded Age and Progressive-Era Catholicism. American history and nation Catholic claims on role...

... in the United States by urbanization, industrialization, mass immigration, and laissez-faire capitalism in the Gilded Age, and, to an extent, this would be a correct conclusion. ³ What separated these individuals from other social reformers of the period, however, was not necessarily their political...

...This book explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces. As the book argues, attribution of industrial-era class conflict to an “alien” presence...

...This chapter illustrates one of the more eclectic periods for American interest in Burke during the Gilded Age. As concerns shifted from politics to economics in American life, traditional Burkean philosophy fell by the wayside—was no longer proclaimed in great political debates or grand patriotic...

... of the Gilded Age, incredible opulence coupled with unsightly social unrest. Against this backdrop, Americans of the 1890s struggled to understand why such incidents seemed to occur with increasing frequency. In the minds of angry workers, fault lay with the economic barons, but those barons...

...This chapter reviews how Catholicism played host to strongly contested internal battles between modernists and traditionalists during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. It explains that the conflict established the US Catholic Church and its influence on the social and political life...

... interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing for itself a place in the national community and in profoundly altering what it meant to be an American in the modern world....

...This chapter looks at how the seemingly rampant skepticism of the Gilded Age led many Protestants to reexamine the nature of doubt. Drawing on two theological ideas—the “person of Jesus” as the fundamental element of Christianity and the progressive nature of revelation—these liberals effectively...

...: who he had been, how he should be remembered, and how he was linked to the Civil War. As she travelled from Chicago to North Elba to Boston to Topeka, she became a highly charged symbol, a stand-in for all kinds of other things on Americans' minds in the Gilded Age: race, reunification, Civil War...