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] About This Issue O ver the years we have featured articles on politics and culture in various issues: four issues on African Americans, three on Hispanics, a two-volume publication on Catholics in a non-Catholic World, two volumes on regionalism , two volumes on Catholics and social reform, and festschrifts for James Hennesey, S.J., Philip Gleason, Jay Dolan, Msgr. George Higgins, and David O’Brien. We are pleased to publish this first issue dedicated to U.S. Catholicism and politics. It is a fine collection of distinctive articles on American Catholicity’s political engagement in ethnic conflicts, in the breakdown of miscegenation, in the struggle against Nazi anti-Semitism, and in the encounter of presidents and popes. On occasion, we publish a symposium review of a significant book related to the theme of an issue. E. J. Dionne’s seminal study, Souled Out, is a perfect fit for this issue symbolized by its subtitle, Reclaiming Faith & Politics after the Religious Right. We are grateful to our contributors. Heath W. Carter is a doctoral student in history at the University of Notre Dame. William Dinges is professor of theology and religious studies in the area of religion and culture at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. James F. Garneau, a pastor, dean, and the director of the diaconate program in the diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina. He is also an adjunct professor of history at Mount Olive College in Mount Olive, North Carolina. Sharon M. Leon is director of public projects and research assistant professor at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Maria Mazzenga is education archivist in the American Catholic Research Center and University Archives at The Catholic University of America. Kristin Cheasty Miller is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. David O’Brien is emeritus professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Charles T. Strauss is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Notre Dame. Leslie Woodcock Tentler is professor of history at The Catholic University of America. Christopher J. Kauffman ...

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