Danger on the doorstep : anti Catholicism and American print culture in the progressive era Introduction: Anti Catholicism and theories of nationalism Utterly incompatible are romanism and Americanism : ideological nativism anti Catholic tradition and American patriotism Help us to turn on more light : progressivism and modernity in the nativist press Rome is the jailer of youth : masculinity childhood and the anti Catholic crusade The slime of the serpent : articulating a counterresponse to American nativism World War I and the anti Catholic hiatus