Citizens or Papists?: The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685-1821Based on careful work with rare archival sources, this book fills a gap in the history of New York Catholicism by chronicling anti Catholic feeling in pre Revolutionary and early national periods. Colonial New York, despite its reputation for pluralism, tolerance, and diversity, was also marked by severe restrictions on religious and political liberty for Catholics. The logic of the American Revolution swept away the religious barriers, but Anti