About This Issue

This issue presents a diversity of contributions engaging various themes in the war-time and post-World War II era. Contributors include Sean Brennan, associate professor of history at the University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is completing a biography of Father Fabian Flynn titled The Life of Father Fabian Flynn: A Catholic Warrior of the Second World War and the Cold War. Mark B. Chapman is an adjunct professor and doctoral candidate in historical theology at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Darra D. Mulderry is assistant professor of history at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island and is completing the book “Super-Apostles” for Christ: U.S. Catholic Sisters and Activism for Social Justice, 1945–1980. Kristy Nabhan-Warren is the V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Fellow in Catholic Studies at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. She recently published Cursillos in America: Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day Spirituality. Stephen M. Koeth, C.S.C., is a doctoral student in the department of history at Columbia University, New York. Kathleen Holscher is assistant professor of American Studies and Religious Studies, and holds the endowed chair of Roman Catholic studies at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Charles T. Strauss is assistant professor of history, Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland.

William Issel, professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University and visiting professor of history at Mills College, Oakland, California is the reviewer of Lawrence J. McAndrews’ new book, What They Wished For: American Catholics and American Presidents, 1960–2004.