MEDIA & INterviews
Interview on the Leadership Where It Matters Most podcast, January 21, 2025 [listen]
Interview on the history of American expansionism, The Drew Mariani Show, Relevant Radio, January 3, 2025 [listen]
“Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America,” Institute for Human Ecology, Catholic University of America, November 13, 2024 [watch]
Interview on early American Catholic history, The Drew Mariani Show, Relevant Radio, July 3, 2024 [listen]
Interview on Catholics and the American Founding, The Catholic Connection, Ave Maria Radio, July 2, 2024 [listen]
Interview with the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, May 6, 2024 [read]
“The Catholic Declaration of Independence,” Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2024 [read]
“The Rise of American Politics,” The Pursuit of Wisdom course, Ave Maria University, April 2024 [watch the course] [watch the trailer]
Interview on Catholics and religious freedom, Faith on Trial, Iowa Catholic Radio Network, November 25, 2023 [listen]
“Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America,” The Federalist Society, September 15, 2023 [watch]
“Catholic Influences on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding,” James Madison Program, Princeton University, June 6, 2023 [watch]
“Catholics in Early America,” Catholic Theology Show, March 7, 2023 [listen] [watch]
“Our Dear Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America,” Ave Maria Lecture Series, Naples, FL, February 16, 2023 [watch]
“The Catholic Foundations of the Establishment Clause,” Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, January 12, 2023 [watch]
“How America’s First Catholics Walked the Church-State Tightrope,” Crown and Crozier Podcast, November 26, 2022 [listen]
“Our Dear-Bought Liberty,” First Freedom Podcast, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, July 27, 2022 [listen]
“How Catholics Became Americans,” Political Animals, The Matthew J. Ryan Center, Villanova University, April 22, 2022 [listen]
“Our Dear-Bought Liberty,” Notre Dame Law School, Religious Liberty Initiative, April 4, 2022 [watch]
Interview on Our Dear-Bought Liberty, The New Books Network with Hope J. Leman, March 24, 2022 [listen]
“Cushwa in Rome: Book Discussion with Michael Breidenbach,” Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, March 4, 2022 [read]
“Our Dear-Bought Liberty,” Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought, James Madison Program, Princeton University, February 17, 2022 [watch]
“The Papacy & America’s Founding,” The Popecast, December 17, 2021 [listen]
“The 3 Popes Objection,” Catholic Challenge, Maria Vision TV, December 15, 2021 [watch]
“A Look at How Catholics Contributed to the Creation of Our Nation,” EWTN News Nightly, November 24, 2021 [watch]
“The Catholic Quest for Religious Liberty in America,” Inaugural Ave Maria Lecture Series, Ave Maria University, broadcasted on Maria Vision TV, November 23, 2021 [watch]
Book discussion with commentary by Prof. John T. McGreevy, Rome Global Gateway and the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, November 16, 2021 [watch]
“Colonial Catholics and the Transformation of Liberty,” Kresta in the Afternoon, Ave Maria Radio, October 29, 2021 [listen]
“Historically Speaking: Our Dear-Bought Liberty,” St. Mary’s County Historical Society, Maryland, August 10, 2021 [watch]
“Our Dear Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America,” Anchoring Truths, James Wilson Institute, Washington, DC, June 30, 2021 [listen]
“Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America,” Catholic Information Center, Washington, DC, June 16, 2021 [watch]
“Tolerating Catholics,” First Things, June 14, 2021 [listen]
“Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America: A Conversation with Michael Breidenbach,” Madison’s Notes, James Madison Program, Princeton University, June 14, 2021 [listen]
“Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America,” Center for the Study of Government and the Individual, University of Colorado–Colorado Springs, April 29, 2021 [watch]
American Catholic Studies Newsletter, Cushwa Center for Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2017
American Catholic Studies Newsletter, Cushwa Center for Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, vol. 44, no. 1, Spring 2017
“Drs. Janice and Michael Breidenbach Receive Visiting Positions at Oxford This Summer,” Academics at Ave Maria University, April 19, 2017
“3rd Annual History Undergrad Mini Conference,” Academics at Ave Maria University, April 11, 2017
American Catholic Studies Newsletter, Cushwa Center for Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, vol. 43, no. 2 Fall 2016
Annual Report, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 2016
“Proper Tea and Religious Liberty: Twenty-One Questions with Dr. Michael Breidenbach,” Academics at Ave Maria University, October 3, 2014
“Dynamic Duos,” Ave Maria University Magazine, October 2014
Photo: Ave Maria University
“AMU Professor to Present at APSA Annual Meeting,” Academics at Ave Maria University, August 24, 2014