A distinctive and modern telling of the history of the Society of Jesus in AmericaThe history of America cannot be told without the history of religion the history of American religion cannot be told without the history of Catholicism and the history of Catholicism in America cannot be told without the history of Jesuits in America. Jesuits in the United States offers a panoramic overview of the Jesuit order in the United States from the colonial era to the present. David J. Collins SJ describes the development of the Jesuit order in the US against the background of American religious cultural and social history. He covers the papacys suppression of the order and its restoration period. The author also compares Jesuit activities in the US to those in Europe and by the twentieth century to those around the world as the political and religious connections between the US and the world especially Latin America grow.. Collins also reflects on the future of the order in light of its past.Readers familiar with the Jesuit tradition and those who are new to it will learn from this books distinctive and modern perspectiveusing twentyfirst century scholarship on Jesuit slaveholding the sexual abuse crisis and other contemporary issueson 500 years of Jesuit history in the United States.