Catholics in the American Century: Recasting Narratives of U.S. History
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The rationale for this collection of essays stems from a historiographical incongruity described by R. Scott Appleby in the concluding chapter. On the one hand, Catholics have been a powerful presence in modern life in the United States. After all, Appleby points out, they are “the nation's largest religious body”; “constitute nearly one quarter of the American population”; “have built powerful political machines” in several major cities; have created “the largest private school system in the nation”; and have “built a network of hospitals, orphanages, and charitable organizations” that has “eased the load of overburdened public institutions” (p. 157). On the other hand, a look at the history textbooks used in public schools or universities or at “otherwise perceptive social histories” reveals that analyses of the Catholic presence and its relation to the modern American experience are generally absent (p. 158). The essays in this book represent attempts by various historians to redress this incongruity. More simply put, these essays seek to demonstrate how account(s) of the American experience over the last century might be different if scholars paid more attention to American Catholics.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".