Kyle B. Roberts is associate professor of Public History and New Media in the History Department and director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago. He is the project director of the Jesuit Libraries Project and the Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project.Stephen R. Schloesser, S.J. is a professor of late-modern intellectual and cultural European history in the History Department at Loyola University Chicago.

“By providing numerous case studies of ordinary, often-overlooked people who made unique as well as representative contributions to forming, transforming, and connecting individuals, institutions, and local communities during a period of intense nation building, this collection deepens and broadens our understanding of American history from 1814–2014. The volume demonstrates that studying US Catholicism is not an intramural exercise of filiopietistic apologists but a crucial contribution of serious scholarship to gain a better understanding of the USA. All serious students of US history will profit from the fine bibliographies at the end of each chapter. Specialists will find much helpful information to prompt their further questions and suggest creative research projects. Those who planned and executed this project deserve many thanks.” James Grummer, S.J. (Pontifical Gregorian University). In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 87, Fasc. 173 (2018-I), pp. 151–154.

• AcknowledgmentsFiguresAbbreviationsForeword: The Will of the Gods, the Life of Bees, and the Brightness of StarsMichael J. Garanzini, S.J. Introduction: Crossings and DwellingsKyle B. Roberts and Stephen R. Schloesser, S.J.Part 1Crossings 1: Indigenous and Immigrant (1814–65)1. Transatlantic Reinvention, 1773–1848: An Old World Accommodates the NewGerald L. McKevitt, S.J.2. A Romantic Invented Tradition: Restoring the Seventeenth-Century Paraguayan Reductions in the Nineteenth-Century Rocky MountainsFrédéric Dorel 3. Orestes A. Brownson’s Writings on the Society of Jesus: Passionate Apologetics and “Wanton” AttacksCharlotte Hansen Part 2Dwellings 1: Urban Hybrids (1865–1920)4. Finding God in the City: Religion and Urban HistoryTimothy Gilfoyle5. “To Any Degree”: Jesuit Medical Schools in the Nineteenth-Century United StatesDana A. Freiburger 6. Recusant Constitutionalist Ultramontanism: Rhetorical Practice at Clongowes Wood and Holy Cross, 1815–1920Thomas R.E. Murphy, S.J.7. Core and Peripheries: Spatial Organization and Workings in Early BVM SchoolsRachel Daack 8. Public School “Secularists” vs. Women Religious: Competing Visions for Educating Immigrant Catholics in Jane Addams’s Progressive Era Chicago, 1890–1925Rima Lunin Schultz9. A Jesuit University in the New World: Music’s Cultural Mission at Georgetown University (1789–1930)Anna Harwell Celenza Part 3Dwellings 2: Slightly Askew (1920–65)10. Confessional and Couch: E. Boyd Barrett, Priest-PsychoanalystPaula M. Kane11. Jamaica Triumphant (1937): Daniel Lord, Pageantry, and the Foundations of Jamaican National TheaterRoy Brooks-Delphin12. Icy Crossings and Dwellings: John Fox, S.J., and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Snows Mary Ewens, O.P. 13. The Long Formation of Daniel Berrigan: 1921–66Eric Martin Part 4Crossings 2: Borders and Boundaries (1965–2015)14. “Each Individual Catholic Can and Does Form His Own Conscience on This and Every Other Subject”: John Ford, S.J., and the Theology of Conscience, 1941–69Pete Cajka15. Jesuits and Madames: The Life and Death of Newton College of the Sacred Heart, 1945–75James M. O’Toole 16. Daniel Berrigan as Precursor to and Embodiment of GC 32’s “Decree 4: Our Mission Today” (1974–75)Daniel Cosacchi 17. From Religions to Lifeways: Jesuits and Native Americans, 1965–2015Frédéric Dorel18. Jesuit Ecumenism in Three Acts: Lessons from the Life of Robert McAfee BrownPaul G. Crowley, S.J. Afterword: Narrating Catholic HistoryThomas A. Tweed