... The Melting Pot Zangwill melting pot narrative nativism Zangwill Israel Americanization anti Semitism Ford Henry intermarriage Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA Irish immigrants Meagher Timothy Abie’s Irish Rose Nichols Nichols Anne Irish Americans Jewish Americans...

...This chapter examines the initial motivations behind Irish American Catholics' enlistments in the early years of the war; how their views of the conflict, as well as the opinions of their communities, changed as the war evolved; and how this influenced the memory of Irish American volunteerism...

... of conscription home front and opinions on war Bannon John Davis Jefferson riots Lost Cause Republican Party Ryan Abram Americanization Civil War Irish American Catholics Confederacy Lost Cause Irish Confederates At Hibernian Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, in late 1877, former congressional...

... American identity into the mid-twentieth century, and its path charted the transformation of the disciplined folk piety created by the “devotional revolution” in Ireland in the nineteenth century into an American Catholicism dominated by Irish American clergy who sought to defend communalistic Catholic...

...After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick’s Day? This book traces the evolution of “Irish” as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the nineteenth century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish...