Preface
Introduction

Part One: Catholics in Spanish Colonial America
Chapter One: 1492, The Beginning
Chapter Two: Christopher Columbus
Chapter Three: Missionary Work during the Spanish Conquest and Colonization of America
Chapter Four: Franciscan Missionaries in Northern Mexico, New Mexico, and Texas
Chapter Five: The Missionaries of California
Chapter Six: The Decline of the Spanish Missions

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
About the Author
Index