This week, a class about Irish Catholics and 19th century New York City politics, including Tammany Hall.

Christendom College professor Christopher Shannon explains.

Despite persistent and clear expressions of loyalty and patriotism, and despite the real kind of human sacrifice of life in the Civil War, after the Civil War, Catholics remained a people viewed by most Americans with suspicion and fear.

People apart, a people to be feared.

More in a moment.

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Well, good morning, everyone. Today's lecture, which I sent you the outline in advance,

is called Tammany Catholic. We'll be looking at Catholics in American politics, really,

especially American urban politics in the late 19th century. And just to kind of put this in the

context of what we've been looking at for the past couple of weeks, again, what we've been looking

at is this struggle

for American Catholics to kind of find their place

in American culture.

Despite persistent and clear expressions

of loyalty and patriotism, and despite the real kind

of human sacrifice of life in the Civil War, after the Civil War, Catholics remained a people

viewed by most Americans with suspicion and fear, a people apart, a people to be feared.

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