Emily Clark is assistant professor of history at Tulane University.
With this finely crafted study, Clark contributes substantively to
the burgeoning field of scholarship acknowledging the seminal roles
women religious have played historically in the formation of
American culture and society.--Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society."
A deeply imagined, beautifully written, and thoroughly researched
account of the earliest order of Catholic sisters in what is now
the United States. . . . General and specialist readers alike will
be grateful to Clark for the vivid story she tells.--Church
History
Clark's enjoyable, punchy account . . . will prove valuable not
only for what it brings to the history of New Orleans and Louisiana
but also what it signifies about the intertwining of
Franco-Iberian-Anglo-American societies and their faiths in the
Americas.--American Historical Review
Elegant prose and riveting narrative . . . a tour de force that
will intrigue any student of early American women's
history.--Journal of the Early Republic
Groundbreaking social history.--H-Net Reviews
Innovative and carefully researched . . . opens up the world of
Gulf Coast Catholicism.--Books & Culture
So thorough it encompasses every aspect that touches on the order
of the Sisters of Saint Ursula.--Louisiana History
This meticulously researched and engaging book makes an important
contribution to our understanding of the intertwined histories of
race, gender, and religion in American history.--The Catholic
Historical Review
Written with elegant precision. . . . Essential reading for those
seeking to understand the intimate scale of racial and social
transformations that occurred in a unique southern city.--Journal
of American History
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