ABSTRACT During the era of westward expansion, Americanism became tied to visions of conquering the West with American customs and values. Public schools especially served the interests of promoting nationalism and inducing assimilation. Implicitly Protestant Christian school curricula, however, repelled many Catholics and immigrants from the very institution designed to induce their assimilation. The mid-nineteenth-century school controversy directly motivated America’s first political nativist movement, which associated Protestant Christianity with American greatness and promoted the mandatory use of the King James Bible in schools as the primary way to convert Catholics, Germans, and Irish to American national values.

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英王詹姆斯圣经作为美国西部移民中的民族主义学校课程

摘要 在向西扩张的时代，美国主义与用美国的习俗和价值观征服西方的愿景联系在一起。公立学校尤其有利于促进民族主义和诱导同化。然而，隐含的新教基督教学校课程将许多天主教徒和移民排斥在旨在诱导他们同化的机构中。19 世纪中叶的学校争议直接推动了美国的第一次政治本土主义运动，该运动将新教基督教与美国的伟大联系起来，并推动在学校强制使用国王詹姆士圣经作为将天主教徒、德国人和爱尔兰人转变为美国国民的主要途径。值。