Preface
Introduction

Part One: Catholics in Spanish Colonial America
Chapter One: Christopher Columbus
Chapter Two: Missionary Work during the Spanish Conquest and Colonization of America
Chapter Three: Franciscan Missionaries in Northern Mexico, New Mexico, and Texas
Chapter Four: The Missionaries of California
Chapter Five: The Decline of the Spanish Missions

Part Two: Catholics in French Colonial America
Chapter Six: First French Voyages to America
Chapter Seven: Franciscan Missionaries in New France to 1629
Chapter Eight: The Jesuits in New France
Chapter Nine: Jesuit Journeys
Chapter Ten: The Three Communities in the Service of Christ
Chapter Eleven: Missionaries in Louisiana
Chapter Twelve: Missionaries in the French-Canadian West

Part Three: Catholics in English Colonial America
Chapter Thirteen: War, Empire, and the British Colonies
Chapter Fourteen: The Catholic Experience in the Middle and Southern Colonies
Chapter Fifteen: Catholics during the American Revolution

Part Four: Toward a New Century
Chapter Sixteen: Catholic Missionaries in the New Republic
Chapter Seventeen: Catholics in Antebellum America

Part Five: Across the Continent
Chapter Eighteen: Missionaries in the Trans-Appalachian Frontier
Chapter Nineteen: Catholics in the Upper Mississippi Valley
Chapter Twenty: Catholics in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Chapter Twenty-One: Mexican Independence
Chapter Twenty-Two: Changes in the Church in Texas and the Southwest
Chapter Twenty-Three: California after the Mexican War
Chapter Twenty-Four: Catholics Northwest of the Mississippi River into Canada
Chapter Twenty-Five: The First Nations and Catholic Abuses

Part Six: The Civil War and After
Chapter Twenty-Six: Catholics during the Civil War
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Catholics after the Civil War
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Black Catholics
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Roman Catholics and the Perils of Democracy

Part Seven: Into the Twentieth Century
Chapter Thirty: The Modern Mentality
Chapter Thirty-One: Vatican II
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Great Commission Today

Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
About the Author
Index