LIST OF REFERENCES
Warren Carrol, History of Christendom, Volumes I – VI (2004 – 2013) (very well researched and comprehensive history)
John Vidmar, O.P, The Catholic Church Throughout the Ages (2005) (solid one volume history)
Thomas Bokenkotter, A Concise History of the Catholic Church (2004) (a history from a secular standpoint)
Louis de Wohl, Founded Upon Rock (1961) (a quick one volume history; not comprehensive, but very engaging)
Diane Moczar, The Church Ascending (2013) and The Church Under Attack (2014) (by a local scholar who taught at NOVA Community College)
Russell Shaw, American Church: The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall, and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America (2013) (a commentary on the relationship between the Catholic Church and American Society)
Patrick Carey, Catholicism in America (2004) (leans slightly towards modernism) John Tracy Ellis, American Catholicism (1956) (a classic of the time)
Theodore Maynard, The Story of American Catholicism (1943) (another old classic; may be difficult to obtain)
Anne Carrol, Christ in the Americas (1997) (a high school textbook; solid Catholic perspective; sometimes rather triumphalistic)
Jay Dolan, The American Catholic Experience (1985) (with reservations; leans heavily in the moderist direction)
American Catholic History: A Documentary Reader, ed. By Mark Massa, S.J. (2008) (good collection of primary sources; may be difficult to obtain)
Fr. John Courtney Murray, We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition (1960) (a classic commentary on the alliance between Catholicism and America’s ideals)
Patrick Allitt, Talks on American Religious History, Great Courses series (2001) (lectures by a professor at Emory University on the history of religion in the United States)