Puritan's Empire: A Catholic Perspective on American History Susan Van Scoy She lives in New York

She lives in New York City and is a graduate of the College of William & Mary in Virginia and the Columbia Journalism School

Successes and disasters (like the Donner party's fate) are presented in nearly personal detail

I just wanted to survive

including acclaim from the Associates (sahabah) and Followers (tabe'en)

Snyder is a former Washington D

Puritan's Empire: A Catholic Perspective on American History Susan Van Scoy She lives in New YorkHistory is the key to understanding men whether as nations, families, or individuals. For Catholics, history has an even higher purpose beside. For them, history is the unfolding of God's Will in time, and the attempts of men either to conform themselves to or to resist that Will. But American Catholic historians have generally refrained from exploring their own national history with these principles, preferring instead to adopt the analysis of their