caroline janeny discusses the political and military uncertainty in the week following the end of thear, and we talk about confederate general robert e. lee. you can find a full schedule of history programs airing today in your program guide or by visiting c-span.org/history. starting now, it's lectures in history with professor christopher shannon. he teaches a class about irish catholics and 19th century new york city politics. >> well, good morning, everyone.

caroline janeny discusses the political and military uncertainty in the week following the end of the war, and we talk about confederate general robert e. lee. you can find a full schedule of history programs airing today in your program guide or by visiting c-span.org/history. starting now, it's lectures in history with professor christopher shannon. he teaches a class about irish catholics and 19th century new york city politics. >> well, good morning, everyone. today's lecture is called tamany catholics. just to put this in the context of what we've been looking at the past couple of weeks, what we've been looking at is this struggle for american catholics to kind of find their place in american culture. despite persistent and clear expressions of loyalty and patriotism and despite the real and human sacrifice of life in the civil war, after the civil war catholics remained a people viewed by most americans with suspicion and fear. a people apart, a people to be feared. a variety of reasons for this. they were members of what was perceived to be a foreign church based in rome. they