Citizens or Papists?: The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685-1821

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments With so much thanks to give, I would like to express my deep appreciation and gratitude to my many outstanding teachers, beginning with those at St. Catherine of Siena School and Christian Brothers Academy in Albany. Special thanks go to Bernie Lammers and Ruth Kreuzer of St. Lawrence University and Richard Stites of Georgetown University. At the University of Iowa, where I began this project , I was fortunate enough to meet and work with the late Sydney V. James, who taught me much about the craft of history and of the pleasures of early American history. From my first semester in graduate school at Iowa, Allen Steinberg pushed me to do my best work and also took my scholarship on its own terms, for which I am very grateful. Linda Kerber’s sharing of her deep understanding of the early republic and her important words of wisdom and encouragement have also shaped this work. Although Ellis Hawley was not involved in this project, I learned much from him, as I did from Shel Stromquist, Ken Cmiel, and Dwight Bozeman. Sarah Hanley and Mac Rohrbough were extraordinary in their generosity and hospitality . I would be remiss if I did not thank the staff at Iowa, especially Mary Strottman and Jean Aiken, for their friendship and assistance at many a key moment. Iowa City was also the scene of a lively graduate community during the 1990s; Dan Lewis, John Fry, Michael ix x Acknowledgments Hau, Catherine Rymph, Phil Otterness, Greg Rohlf, and Gesine Gerard , among many others, including the folks in UE-COGS, all helped to make it that way. Friends and relatives whose generous hospitality on research and conference trips is much appreciated; they include the Cooneys, Jane Kennedy, Paul Marshall, Jeff Procak and Sara Winslow, J. B. Poersch, John Gadd, and Jay and Tricia Post. Jon Lauck, Dave McMahon, and Mark Milosch deserve not merely a mention, but a separate book. No history can be written without the expert guidance and help from librarians and fellow scholars. The staffs at Iowa, Georgetown University, Catholic University, and the University of Notre Dame were especially helpful, as was James Folts of the New York State Archives in Albany, Lenora Gidlund of the New York City Municipal Archives, and Steve Bielinski and Father James Lefebvre of the Colonial Albany Social History Project. I am also in the debt of the Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale University. I bene fited greatly, too, from presenting my work to Alfred Young and the Early American History Seminar at the Newberry Library, to the American Catholic Historical Association, to the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. Edward Countryman, Phil Gleason, Jay Dolan, Dan Cohen, John Fea, Patrick Carey, Dale Light, Emmet Larkin, Sam Thomas, David Waldstreicher , and David Hackett all made valuable suggestions in my research and writing, for which I am very grateful. My editor at Fordham, Bob Jones, has been a great help and a truly patient man; I would also like to thank Helen Tartar, Chris Mohney, Loomis Mayer, and Kate O’Brien for their efforts in the final stages of my manuscript becoming a book. The faculty and staff at Aquinas College, especially Chad Gunnoe and John Pinhiero of the History Department, Gary Eberle, Rosemary Schoenborn, and Ann Marie Schlichting of ITS, and Sally Reeves and Jeanine Weber have helped me to move things along at key moments. I also very much appreciate the faculty Acknowledgments xi grant from Aquinas in the final year of work on the book, which helped me to complete it. Finally, I would like to thank my family, especially my parents, David and Kay Duncan, who first noticed and encouraged my interest in history, and who have supported me on the long road to becoming an historian. Special thanks are also due to Sarah Dunn, who did not live to see this book, but whose generous support often proved to be essential. For their support, patience, and understanding over these many years, I also thank Mark and Pam, Ed and Mary Ann, little Heather, and Kae Lin and Sara and Dan; they witnessed, from back home in Albany, the often slow progress of this idea into what is now finally a book. —Jason K. Duncan Grand Rapids, Michigan ...