| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 183 words from this article are provided below; about 377 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:: • Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era. By Deirdre M. Moloney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xviii, 267 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2660-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4986-3.)

American historiography has been dominated in the past by Protestant and, more recently, secular perspectives. The effect has been to ghettoize the writing of the history of Roman Catholicism in the United States (and the history of religion generally). In consequence, historical societies, journals, and conferences devoted to chronicling America's religious faiths developed. Not a bad thing in itself, but, as Deirdre M. Moloney points out, Catholic scholarship regarding social reform (and other important subjects) has by and large been neglected by the "mainstream" of U.S. history. A case in point is Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998).In her monograph, Moloney offers a corrective in the form of a synthesis of previous writings and her own researches on the role of the Catholic laity in a variety of reform movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

. . .

There are about 377 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.