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Nativism

Here are entered works on the policy of favoring the native inhabitants of a country over immigrants and, particularly in American history, of favoring native Protestants over Catholic immigrants.

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• Anti-Catholicism -- United States
• Catholics -- United States

• Nativism -- Congresses
• Nativism -- History
• Nativism -- Periodicals
• Nativism -- United States
• Nativism in literature

• Nativism (politics)

• America for Americans, by Women of the Ku Klux Klan (PDF page images at MSU)
• A Letter on the Moral Causes That Have Produced the Evil Spirit of the Times: Addressed to the Honorable James Harper, Mayor of New-York; Including a Vindication of the Author From the Infamous Charges Made Against Him by Jas. Gordon Bennett, William L. Stone, and Others (New York: J. Winchester, ca. 1844), by John Hughes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Menace of Modern Immigration (c1924, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan), by H. W. Evans (PDF page images at MSU)
• Political Nativism in New York State (dissertation; 1901), by Louis Dow Scisco (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Political Nativism in New York State (New York: Columbia University Press, 1901), by Louis Dow Scisco (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Race or Mongrel: A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Races of Earth; A Theory That the Fall of Nations is Due to Intermarriage With Alien Stocks; A Demonstration That a Nation's Strength is Due to Racial Purity; A Prophecy That America Will Sink to Early Decay Unless Immigration is Rigorously Restricted (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1908), by Alfred P. Schultz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Chivalry, slavery, and young America (Frederic A. Brady, publisher, No. 22 Ann Street, 1866), by John Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brass-knuckle crusade; the great Know-Nothing conspiracy, 1820-1860. (Hastings House, 1960), by Carleton Beals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political nativism in New York State (Columbia University Press ;, 1901), by Louis Dow Scisco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Political nativism in Tennessee to 1860 (The Catholic University of America, 1938), by Mary de Lourdes Gohmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A letter on the moral causes that have produced the evil spirit of the times; addressed to the Honorable James Harper, mayor of New-York. Including a vindication of the author from the infamous charges made against him by Jas. Gordon Bennett, William L. Stone, and others. (J. Winchester, 1844), by John Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celts and Saxons, nativism and naturalization: a complete refutation of the nativism of Dr. Orestes A. Brownson. (Published by Thomas Sweeney, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trial of John R. Buzzell : before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for arson and burglary in the Ursuline Convent at Charlestown. (Russell, Odiorne and Metcalf, 1834), by John R. Buzzell, Samuel N. Dickinson, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and Boston Ursuline Convent (Charlestown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of proscriptive or extreme legislation against foreigners in Massachusetts and New England, on free labor, free states, and the cause of freedom and republicanism in the West (s.n.], 1857), by Edward Lillie Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• A true statement of the first fire on Sunday evening, July 7, 1844. ([s.n.], 1844), by Citizen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young Sam. (American Family Publication Establishment, 1855), by E. Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political nativism in New York State. (AMS Press, 1968), by Louis Dow Scisco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nativism in the lower Mississippi Valley (s.n., 1913), by Arthur Charles Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civil and religious toleration : speech of William S. Barry, of Miss., delivered in the House of Representatives, December 18, 1854. (Printed at the office of the Congressional Globe, 1854), by William S. Barry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hon. A.H. Stephens, of Ga., on know-nothingism ([Augusta, Ga.?] : [publisher not identified], [1855], 1855), by Alexander H. Stephens and Thomas W. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Native American principles ([publisher not identified], 1845), by Native American Party and Pa.) Native American Party. National Convention (1845 : Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)

• Papers Presented to the Conference of American and Protestant Organizations, May 7th, 1889, at the Morton House, New York City (Philadelphia: "Camp News" Print, 1889), by Conference of American and Protestant Organizations (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Papers presented to the Conference of American and Protestant Organizations, May 7th, 1889, at the Morton House, New York City. ("Camp News" Print., 1889), by N.Y.) Conference of American and Protestant Organizations (1889 : New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the Native American State Convention : held at Harrisburg, February 22, 1845. ([s.n.], 1845), by Pa.) Native American Party (Pa.). State Convention (1845 : Harrisburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis: Political Nativism in the Antebellum West (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021), by Luke Ritter (PDF files at JSTOR)

• The guardian of liberty. (Guardians of Liberty, 1913), by N.Y.). National Court Guardians of Liberty (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official proceedings (The Council], in the 19th century), by Junior Order United American Mechanics. State Council of North Carolina (page images at HathiTrust)

• Speech of Mr. James Dixon, of Connecticut, on the subject of the naturalization laws : and the origin of the native American Party : delivered in the House of Representatives U.S., December 30, 1845. (Printed by J. & G.S. Gideon, 1846), by James Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Shelley Streeby (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Wars of the Godly (New York: R. M. McBride, 1928), by Reuben Maury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Errors and Persecutions of the Roman Catholic Church (St. Louis: J.H. Chambers and Co., 1881), contrib. by S. H. Ford, E. M. Marvin, John A. Wilson, George Augustus Lofton, J. G. Wilson, Thomas O. Summers, T. P. Haley, Samuel J. Niccolls, Thomas Bowman, Richard S. Storrs, P. G. Robert, and G. W. Hughey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Errors of the Roman Catholic Church, and its Insidious Influence in the United States and Other Countries, by the Most Profound Thinkers of the Present Day; and the History and Progress of the American Protective Association (St. Louis: J.H. Chambers, 1894), contrib. by S. H. Ford, Scott F. Hershey, T. J. Morgan, Madison Clinton Peters, E. M. Marvin, John A. Wilson, George Augustus Lofton, J. G. Wilson, Thomas O. Summers, T. P. Haley, Samuel J. Niccolls, Thomas Bowman, Richard S. Storrs, P. G. Robert, and G. W. Hughey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Errors of the Roman Catholic Church": or, "Centuries of Oppression, Persecution and Ruin" (St. Louis: J.H. Chambers and Co., 1899), contrib. by S. H. Ford, Scott F. Hershey, T. J. Morgan, Madison Clinton Peters, E. M. Marvin, John A. Wilson, George Augustus Lofton, J. G. Wilson, Thomas O. Summers, T. P. Haley, Samuel J. Niccolls, Thomas Bowman, Richard S. Storrs, P. G. Robert, and G. W. Hughey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Letter on the Moral Causes That Have Produced the Evil Spirit of the Times: Addressed to the Honorable James Harper, Mayor of New-York; Including a Vindication of the Author From the Infamous Charges Made Against Him by Jas. Gordon Bennett, William L. Stone, and Others (New York: J. Winchester, ca. 1844), by John Hughes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Brief exposition of the dangers to be apprehended to our civil and religious liberties, from Presbyterianism (Wm. J. Cunningham, 1844), by Justus E. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life in a convent (Helen Jackson, 1925), by Helen Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Roman Catholic element in American history (Sheldon, Blakeman, 1857), by Justin D. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final report of Commission on Religious Prejudices. (Supreme Council, Knights of Columbus, 1917), by Knights of Columbus. Commission on Religious Prejudices (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter on the moral causes that have produced the evil spirit of the times; addressed to the Honorable James Harper, mayor of New-York. Including a vindication of the author from the infamous charges made against him by Jas. Gordon Bennett, William L. Stone, and others. (J. Winchester, 1844), by John Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foreign conspiracy against the liberties of the United States : the numbers under the signature of Brutus, originally published in the New York observer (The American and Foreign Christian Union, 1852), by Samuel Finley Breese Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The trial of the pope, the antiChrist, or man of sin, for high treason against the son of God : on the testimony of the sovereigns of Europe, the president of the United States, and the reformers and martyrs ... (American and Foreign Christian Union, 1856), by Herman Albert Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papal Rome as it is (Publication Rooms, 1843), by L. Giustiniani (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the conversion and sufferings of Sarah Doherty : illustrative of popery in Ireland, and of the power of evangelical truth. (American and Foreign Christian Union, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true faith and how I found it : the story of a remarkable conversion from Roman Catholicism, with additional chapters on subjects vital and fundamental (True Faith Company, 1912), by Samuel McGerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present uprising against the Roman hierarchy; an open letter to the Democratic National Committeemen and to the Democratic national delegates (H.S. Burwell, 1911), by Publicity Bureau concerning Roman Catholic Rulers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Startling facts for American Protestants! Progress of Romanism since the Revolutionary war; its present position and future prospects (Published by the Amer. Protestant Society, 1844), by Herman Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse on the duty of sustaining the laws occasioned by the burning of the Ursuline Convent : delivered at the First Church in Medford, Sunday, August 24, 1834 (Hilliard, Gray, 1834), by Caleb Stetson and Mass.) First Congregational Church (Medford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trial of John R. Buzzell : before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for arson and burglary in the Ursuline Convent at Charlestown. (Russell, Odiorne and Metcalf, 1834), by John R. Buzzell, Samuel N. Dickinson, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and Boston Ursuline Convent (Charlestown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Roman Catholic Church : its law and its literature (T. Watson Book Co., 1928), by Thomas E. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman Catholics in America falsifying history and poisoning the minds of Protestant school children (T. Watson Book Co., 1928), by Thomas E. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papal Rome as it is, by a Roman : with an introduction by W.C. Brownlee (James M. Campbell ;, 1845), by L. Giustiniani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar letters to John B. Fitzpatrick, the Catholic bishop of Boston (J. P. Mendum, 1854), by Independent Irishman and John Bernard Fitzpatrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Temperance and popery : an address delivered before the Saratoga County Convention at Ballston Spa, October 10, 1854 (J. Munsell, 1854), by Edward F. Bullard and N.Y.) Saratoga County Convention (1854 : Ballston Spa (page images at HathiTrust)
• A true statement of the first fire on Sunday evening, July 7, 1844. ([s.n.], 1844), by Citizen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young Sam. (American Family Publication Establishment, 1855), by E. Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papal idolatry an exposure of the dogma of transubstantiation and mariolatry : dedicated to Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Md. with "The God of Rome eaten by a rat", "The reasons why we must put our trust in Jesus alone, and not invoke Mary", and "The Reasons why I will never return to the Church of Rome" (A. Craig, 1889), by Charles Chiniquy (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address to the impartial public on the intolerant spirit of the times being the introduction to the Miscellanea of M. J. Spalding, D.D., Bishop of Louisville. (Webb & Levering, 1854), by M. J. Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papal idolatry an exposure of the dogma of transubstantiation and mariolatry : dedicated to Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Md. with "The God of Rome eaten by a rat", "The reasons why we must put our trust in Jesus alone, and not invoke Mary", and "The Reasons why I will never return to the Church of Rome" (A. Craig, 1888), by Charles Chiniquy (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Discours du juge Goyon sur la question religieuse soulevée par les Know Nothings aux États-Unis] (s.n., 1855), by juge Goyon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political Romanism : an organized opposition to progress destructive of free institutions, including present-day uprising against political Romanism, also the reform program and an outline history of progressive and reactionary forces in the United States 1607 to 1914, with an introduction describing the Reformation and Counter-Reformation 1520-1648, comparative history of patriotic secret societies and of the reactionary Jesuits (Publicity Bureau for the Exposure of Political Romanism, 1914), by Publicity Bureau for the Exposure of Political Romanism and Chattin Bradway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romish books in the church (Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1881), by Daniel Francis Sprigg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last trip and martyrdom of William Black (The New Menace, 1915), by William Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Priest and woman : a book for wives, mothers, and daughters (Wm. Lloyd Clark, in the 1910s), by Wm. Lloyd Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americanism vs. Roman Catholicism (Truth Pub. Co., 1923), by M. R. Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romanism, the peril of our country : address by Col. Edwin A. Sherman, of Oakland, California, delivered at Music Hall, Boston, Sunday afternoon, Oct. 20, 1889. (B.F. Bradbury, 1889), by Edwin A. Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Native American principles ([publisher not identified], 1845), by Native American Party and Pa.) Native American Party. National Convention (1845 : Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)

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