Winner, 2017 Ragsdale Award

A timely study that puts current issues--religious intolerance, immigration, the separation of church and state, race relations, and politics--in historical context.

The masthead of the Liberator, an anti-Catholic newspaper published in Magnolia, Arkansas, displayed from 1912 to 1915 an image of the Whore of Babylon. She was an immoral woman sitting on a seven-headed beast, holding a golden cup "full of her abominations," and intended to represent the Catholic Church.

Propaganda of this type was common during a nationwide surge in...