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Horatio Oliver Ladd: A New England Conscience for New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Frederick G. Bohme
Frederick G. Bohme
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University of New Mexico
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The decades of the 1870's and 1880's were times of increasing social consciousness on the part of the churches of the United States. The Civil War had been concluded, and the expansion of the nation within its own borders was resumed. All of the religious bodies— Protestant, Jewish, and Roman Catholic—were called upon to perform a task which neither the government nor any organized secular group was prepared to do: integrate literally millions of immigrants into the American way of life.

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Research Article
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Church History , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , June 1957 , pp. 143 - 155
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1957

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