Specific Denominational Histories
Below you will find listings of journals, books and websites to help you research the history of your denomination.
Journal articles about almost all of the denominations listed below can be found in the ATLA Religion database
Reformed Church in America (RCA)
In-Library Magazines/ Journals:
Journal of Reformed Theology
Reference Books:
Dictionary of the Presbyterian & Reformed tradition in America / general editor, D.G. Hart ; consulting editor, Mark A. Noll.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8909 .D53 1999
Historical dictionary of the Reformed Churches / Robert Benedetto, Donald K. McKim.
LC REFERENCE REF BX9415 .B46 2010
Historical directory of the Reformed Church in America, 1628-2000 / by Russell L. Gasero.
LC REFERENCE REF BX9507 .A55 2001
A digest and index of the minutes of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America, 1958-1977 (1979)/ by Mildred W. Schuppert.
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Encyclopedia of the Reformed faith / Donald K. McKim, editor ; David F. Wright, consulting editor.
LC REFERENCE REF BX9406 .E56 1992
The Reformed family worldwide : a survey of Reformed Churches, theological schools, and international organizations / compiled and edited by Jean-Jacques Bauswein and Lukas Vischer.
LC REFERENCE REF BX9407 .R44 1999
Circulating Books
A brief history of the Reformed Church in America (1958)/ Elton M. Eenigenburg.
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The Reformed Church in America: Its Origin, Development and Characteristics (1889)/ David D. Demarest.
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Reformed Church Roots: Thirty-five Formative Events (1977)/ Arie R. Brouwer.
PETTEE MAIN XM B79 1977
Divided by a Common Heritage: The Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America at the Beginning of the New Millennium. Historical series of the Reformed Church in America 54./Smidt, Corwin, et al.
PETTEE MAIN XM D64 2006
The book of church order : including the government, the disciplinary procedures, the bylaws & rules of order of the General Synod, the Reformed Church in America.
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Worship the Lord : the liturgy of the Reformed Church in America.(2005)/Reformed Church in America.
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By grace alone : stories of the Reformed Church in America / Donald J. Bruggink and Kim N. Baker.
PETTEE RESERVE XM B82 2004
The Dutch Reformed Church in the American colonies (1976) / by Gerald F. De Jong.
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A people of hope (1978)/ by Dennis E. Shoemaker.
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Patterns and portraits : women in the history of the Reformed Church in America / edited by Renée House, John Coakley.
PETTEE MAIN XM P27 1999
Piety and patriotism : Bicentennial studies of the Reformed Church in America, 1776-1976 / edited by James W. Van Hoeven.
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Websites
Reformed Church in America
http://www.rca.org/
Archives of the reformed Church in America
https://www.rca.org/archives
Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA)
In-Library Magazines/ Journals:
Journal of Presbyterian History
Reference Books
The Presbyterians / Randall Balmer and John R. Fitzmier.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8935 .B355 1993
Dictionary of the Presbyterian & Reformed tradition in America / general editor, D.G. Hart ; consulting editor, Mark A. Noll.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8909 .D53 1999
Dictionary of Scottish church history & theology / organizing editor, Nigel M. de S. Cameron ; general editors, David F. Wright, David C. Lachman, Donald E. Meek.
LC REFERENCE REF BR782 .D43 1993
Book of catechisms : reference edition./ Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
LC REFERENCE REF BX9183 .P74 2001
Bibliography of published articles on American Presbyterianism, 1901-1980 / compiled by Harold M. Parker, Jr.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8935 .P37 1985
Encyclopedia of the Reformed faith / Donald K. McKim, editor ; David F. Wright, consulting editor.
LC REFERENCE REF BX9406 .E56 1992
A Presbyterian bibliography : the published writings of ministers who served in the Presbyterian Church in the United States during its first hundred years, 1861-1961, and their locations in eight significant theological collections in the U.S.A. / compiled and edited by Harold B. Prince.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8965 .P74 1983
Circulating Books
A brief history of the Presbyterians / James H. Smylie.
LC MAIN BX8935 .S56 1996
A brief history of the Presbyterians / by Lefferts A. Loetscher.
LC MAIN BX8931.2 .L64 1983
The Presbyterian controversy : fundamentalists, modernists, and moderates / Bradley J. Longfield.
LC MAIN BX8937 .L65 1991
Caterpillars and newfangled religion : the struggle for the soul of colonial American Presbyterianism / Thomas H.L. Cornman.
LC MAIN BX8936 .C67 2003
Colonial Presbyterianism : old faith in a new land : commemorating the 300th anniversary of the first presbytery in America / edited by S. Donald Fortson III.
LC MAIN BX8936 .C656 2007
Cyclopedic manual of the United Presbyterian Church of North America: comprising a brief history of her ancestral branches, ministry, congregations, institutions, courts, boards,missions, periodicals, etc., and embellished with the portraits of the moderators of the General Assembly since 1858. (1903)/ William Melancthon Glasgow.
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Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550-1700 / edited by Elizabethanne Boran and Crawford Gribben.
LC MAIN BR380 .E64 2006
The first quarter-millenium : a history of the Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick, N.J., 1726-1976 (1976) / Elizabeth French Boyd.
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The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Part I, Book of Confessions./ Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
LC MAIN BX8969.5 .P743 2007
The practical Calvinist : an introduction to the Presbyterian & Reformed heritage / edited by Peter A. Lillback.
LC MAIN BX9422.5 .P73 2002
Presbyterian pluralism : competition in a Protestant house / William J. Weston.
LC MAIN BX8937 .W47 1997
Websites
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A)
http://www.pcusa.org
Presbyterian Historical Society/National Archives
http://history.pcusa.org/
Presbyterian Heritage Center
http://www.phcmontreat.org/
Presbyterian Church of Korea (KPCA)
In-Library Magazines/ Journals:
Journal of Presbyterian History
Korea Presbyterian Journal of Theology
Reference Books
A dictionary of Asian Christianity / edited by Scott W. Sunquist ; associate editors, David Wu Chu Sing and John Chew Hiang Chea.
LC REFERENCE REF BR1065 .D52 2001
The Reformed family worldwide : a survey of Reformed Churches, theological schools, and international organizations / compiled and edited by Jean-Jacques Bauswein and Lukas Vischer.
LC REFERENCE REF BX9407 .R44 1999
Circulating Books
History of the Korea Mission, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. : v. 2, 1935-59 / Harry A. Rhodes and Archibald Campbell, editors.
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Go therefore : 150 years of Presbyterians in global mission / by James H. Smylie, Dean K. Thompson, Cary Patrick ; edited by Cary Patrick.
LC MAIN BV2570 .S69 1987
Han’guk Kidok Kyohoesa : Changnogyo songjang ul chungsim uro (Studies on the Korean Church history.)/ Ch‘oe Kwang-son cho.
LC MAIN BX9151.K8 C443 1991
Han’guk kyohoe ui son’guja Ondoudu / An Yong-no chium.
LC MAIN BV3462.U6 A63 2002
Unity lost– unity to be regained in Korean Presbyterianism : a history of divisions in Korean Presbyterianism and the role of the means of grace / Hee-Mo Yim.
LC MAIN BX9151.K8 Y55 1996
Protestants and the formation of modern Korean nationalism, 1885-1920 : a study of the contributions of Horace G. Underwood and Sun Chu Kil / In Soo Kim.:
LC MAIN BX9151.K8 K57 1996
Websites
The Presbyterian Church of Korea – Major History
http://www.pck.or.kr/Eng/History/MajorH.asp
in Korean: http://www.pck.or.kr/
Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad
http://www.kpca.org/
Baptist
In-Library Magazines/ Journals:
Baptist History and Heritage
Reference Books:
Baptists around the world : a comprehensive handbook / Albert W. Wardin, editor.
LC REFERENCE REF BX6231 .B37 1995
Historical dictionary of the Baptists / William H. Brackney.
LC REFERENCE REF BX6211 .B73 2009
The Baptists / William Henry Brackney.
LC REFERENCE REF BX6235 .B628 1988
Baptist atlas(1980) / Albert W. Wardin, Jr. ; cartography by Don Fields.
LC REFERENCE REF BX6232 .W37
Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists. /1958
LC REFERENCE BX6211.E5
Circulating Books
Baptists through the centuries : a history of a global people / David W. Bebbington.
LC MAIN BX6231 .B39 2010
Turning points in Baptist history : a festschrift in honor of Harry Leon McBeth / edited by Michael E. Williams, Sr. and Walter B. Shurden.:
LC MAIN BX6231 .T87 2008
Down by the riverside : a brief history of Baptist faith. Study guide / Everett C. Goodwin.
LC MAIN BX6331.3 .G67 2006
Baptist ways : a history / Bill J. Leonard ; [foreword by Edwin S. Gaustad].:
LC MAIN BX6231 .L46 2003
Baptist history: from the foundation of the Christian church to the close of the eighteenth century (1868)/ John Mockett Cramp
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American Baptists and the church / Howard R. Stewart.
LC MAIN BX6461.8 .S74 1997
The Baptist heritage / H. Leon McBeth.
LC MAIN BX6231 .M37 1987
Democratic religion : freedom, authority, and church discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 / Gregory A. Wills.
LC MAIN BX6241 .W55 1997
Total praise : an orientation to Black Baptist belief and worship / Lora-Ellen McKinney ; [foreword by H. Beecher Hicks].
LC MAIN BX6447 .M35 2002
Church planting in the African American community / Michael J. Cox, Joe Samuel Ratliff.
LC MAIN BV2783 .C69 2002
Southern Baptists observed : multiple perspectives on a changing denomination / edited by Nancy Tatom Ammerman.
LC MAIN BX6462.3 .S68 1993
The Baptist congregation : a guide to Baptist belief and practice / Stanley J. Grenz.
LC MAIN BX6340 .G74 1985
Baptist theology : a four-century study / by James Leo Garrett.
LC MAIN BX6331.3 .G37 2009
On being the church : revisioning Baptist identity / Brian Haymes, Ruth Gouldbourne and Anthony R. Cross ; foreword by Paul S. Fiddes.
LC MAIN BX6331.3 .H39 2008
Not an easy journey : some transitions in Baptist life / by Walter B. Shurden.
LC MAIN BX6331.3 .S54 2005
Redeeming the South : religious cultures and racial identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925 / Paul Harvey.
LC MAIN BX6241 .H37 1997
The social teachings of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., since 1961 : a critical analysis of the least, the lost, and the left-out / Albert A. Avant, Jr.
LC MAIN BX6460.9.P77 A93 2004
The early English Baptists, 1603-1649 / Stephen Wright.:
LC MAIN BX6276 .W75 2006
A story of Christian activism : the history of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., inc. / by J. H. Jackson.:
LC MAIN BX6443 .J28
The Southern Baptist Convention and the judgement of history : the taint of an original sin / E. Luther Copeland.
LC MAIN BX6462.7 .C67 1995
At ease in Zion; social history of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900 / Rufus B. Spain.
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Websites
American Baptist Churches, USA
http://abc-usa.org
Southern Baptist Convention
http://www.sbc.net
National Baptist Convention
http://www.nationalbaptist.com
Progressive National Baptist Convention
http://pnbc.org
Baptist History & Heritage Society
http://www.baptisthistory.org/bhhs/
American Baptist Historical Society
http://www.abhsarchives.org/
Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives
http://www.sbhla.org/
Baptist Historical Society (UK)
http://www.baptisthistory.org.uk
African Methodist Episcopal (AME)
In-Library Magazines/ Journals:
The AME Church Review
Reference Books :
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Circulating Books
History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church : (the Black church in action) (1983) / by Howard D. Gregg.
LC FOLIO FOLIO BX8443 .G73
Irony of Afro-American history : an overview of A.M.E. history and related developments / by Robert Henry Reid, Jr.
LC MAIN BX8443 .R45 1984
The romance of African Methodism : a study of the African Methodist Episcopal Church / George A. Singleton.
LC MAIN BX8443 .S56 1985
A will to choose : the origins of African American Methodism / J. Gordon Melton ; [with an introduction from Bishop Woodie W. White].
LC MAIN BX8435 .M45 2007
Segregated Sabbaths : Richard Allen and the emergence of independent Black churches 1760-1840 / Carol V.R. George.
LC MAIN BX8449.A6 G46
“Invisible” strands in African Methodism : a history of the African Union Methodist Protestant and Union American Methodist Episcopal Churches, 1805-1980 / by Lewis V. Baldwin.
LC MAIN BX8471.A4 B34 1983
Freedom’s prophet : Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers / Richard S. Newman.
LC MAIN BX8459.A4 N49 2008
A rock in a weary land : the African Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Clarence E. Walker.
LC MAIN BX8443 .W27 1982
Songs of Zion : the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa / James T. Campbell.
LC MAIN BX8443 .C36 1995
Websites
African Methodist Episcopal Church
http://www.ame-church.com/
African Methodist Episcopal Church- History
http://www.ame-church.com/about-us/history.php
A History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/cssmith/menu.html
Pentecostal
In-Library Magazines/ Journals:
Pneuma: Journal for the Society for Pentecostal Studies
Journal of Pentecostal Theology
Reference Books:
A guide to the study of the Pentecostal movement / by Charles Edwin Jones.
LC REFERENCE REF BR1644 .J66 1983
The new international dictionary of Pentecostal and charismatic movements./ Burgess, Stanley M., 1937-
LC REFERENCE REF BR1644 .D53 2003
African-American Holiness Pentecostal movement : an annotated bibliography / Sherry Sherrod DuPree.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8762.5 .D87 1996
The Charismatic movement : a guide to the study of Neo-Pentecostalism with emphasis on Anglo-American sources / by Charles Edwin Jones.
LC REFERENCE REF BR1644.5.U6 J66 1995
Circulating Books
The century of the Holy Spirit : 100 years of Pentecostal and charismatic renewal, 1901-2001 / [edited by] Vinson Synan.
LC MAIN BR1644.5.U6 S858 2001
Pentecostalism : origins and developments worldwide / Walter J. Hollenweger.
LC MAIN BR1644 .H65 1997
Theological roots of Pentecostalism / Donald W. Dayton ; foreword by Martin E. Marty.
LC MAIN BR1644 .D39 1987
Heaven below : early Pentecostals and American culture / Grant Wacker.
LC MAIN BR1644.5.U6 W33 2001
The Holiness-Pentecostal tradition : Charismatic movements in the twentieth century / Vinson Synan.
LC MAIN BR1644.5.U6 S86 1997
African Pentecostalism : an introduction / Ogbu Kalu.
LC MAIN BR1644.5.A35 K34 2008
Pentecostals after a century : global perspectives on a movement in transition / edited by Allan H. Anderson and Walter J. Hollenweger.
LC MAIN BR1644 .P46 1999
Pentecostal spirituality : a passion for the kingdom / Steven J. Land.
LC MAIN BR1644 .L36 1993
Pentecostal theology and the Christian spiritual tradition / Simon Chan.
LC MAIN BX8762.Z5 C4 2000
Toward a pneumatological theology : Pentecostal and ecumenical perspectives on ecclesiology, soteriology, and theology of mission / Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen ; edited by Amos Yong.
LC MAIN BT121.3 .K375 2002
The silent Pentecostals : a biographical history of the Pentecostal movement among the Hispanics in the twentieth century / Victor De Leon.
LC MAIN BX8762.Z8 A2 1979
Korean pentecostalism : its history and theology / Boo-Woong Yoo.
LC MAIN BR1644.5.K6 Y68 1988
“In Jesus’ name” : the history and beliefs of Oneness Pentecostals / David Reed.
LC MAIN BX8763 .R44 2008
Websites
International Pentecostal Holiness Church
http://iphc.org/
Assemblies of God
http://ag.org/
Church of God in Christ
http://www.cogic.org
European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism
http://www.glopent.net/<
Other
Reference Books
Historically Black Denominations:
Directory of African American religious bodies : a compendium by the Howard University School of Divinity / edited by Wardell J. Payne ; prepared under the auspices of the Research Center on Black Religious Bodies, Howard University School of Divinity
LC REFERENCE REF BR563.N4 D57 1991
An encyclopedia of African American Christian heritage / Marvin A. McMickle ; forewords by Cain Hope Felder and J. Alfred Smith, Sr.
LC REFERENCE REF BR563.N4 M353 2002
Encyclopedia of African American religions / edited by Larry Murphy, J. Gordon Melton, Gary L. Ward.
LC REFERENCE REF BR563.N4 E53 1993
Encyclopedia of African and African-American religions / Stephen D. Glazier, editor.
LC REFERENCE REF BL2462.5 .E53 2001
Lutheran:
The Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church / edited by Julius Bodensieck for the Lutheran World Federation.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8007 .E55 1965
Historical dictionary of Lutheranism / Günther Gassmann ; in cooperation with Duane H. Larson and Mark W. Oldenburg.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8007 .G37 2001
Lutheran cyclopedia / Erwin L. Lueker, editor.
LC REFERENCE BX8007 .L8 1975
The Lutherans / L. DeAne Lagerquist.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8041 .L34 1999
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
http://www.elca.org/
Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
http://lcms.org
Concordia Historical Institute – History of Lutheran – Missouri Synod
http://www.lutheranhistory.org/
Methodist
A dictionary for United Methodists / Alan K. Waltz.:
LC REFERENCE REF BX8382.2.Z5 W34 1991
Historical dictionary of Methodism / edited by Charles Yrigoyen, Jr. and Susan E. Warrick.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8211 .H57 2005
The Methodists / James E. Kirby, Russell E. Richey, and Kenneth E. Rowe.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8382.2.A4 K57 1996
United Methodist Church
http://www.umc.org
Archives of the United Methodist Church
http://www.gcah.org
Free Methodist Church
http://www.freemethodistchurch.org
SMU – Center for Methodist Studies
http://www.smu.edu/bridwell/Collections/SpecialCollectionsandArchives/CenterforMethodistStudies.aspx
Unitarian Universalist
Historical dictionary of Unitarian Universalism / Mark W. Harris.
LC REFERENCE REF BX9809 .H37 2004
The Unitarians and the Universalists / David Robinson.
LC REFERENCE REF BX9833 .R63 1985
Andover-Harvard Theological Seminary – Archives of the Unitarian Universalist Association
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/library/bms/
Unitarian Universalist Historical Society
http://www.uuhs.org/
Evangelical
The Blackwell dictionary of evangelical biography, 1730-1860 / edited by Donald M. Lewis.
LC REFERENCE REF BR1640 .B53 1995
Encyclopedia of evangelicalism / Randall Balmer.
LC REFERENCE REF BR1640 .B35 2004
Handbook of Evangelical theologians / edited by Walter A. Elwell.
LC REFERENCE REF BR1640 .H363 1993
The Christian and Missionary Alliance : an annotated bibliography of textual sources / H.D. (Sandy) Ayer.
LC REFERENCE REF BX6700.C3 A94 2001
Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals
http://isae.wheaton.edu/
World Evangelical Alliance
http://www.worldevangelicals.org/aboutwea/history.htm
Anglican/Episcopal
The Anglican tradition : a handbook of sources / edited by G.R. Evans and J. Robert Wright.
LC REFERENCE REF BX5005 .A54 1991
Historical dictionary of Anglicanism / Colin Buchanan.
LC REFERENCE REF BX5007 .B83 2006
The history of the Episcopal Church in America, 1607-1991 : a bibliography / by Sandra M. Caldwell and Ronald J. Caldwell.
LC REFERENCE REF BX5880 .C35
Archives of the Episcopal Church
http://www.episcopalarchives.org/index.html
Anglican.org – Church History
http://anglican.org/church/ChurchHistory.html
Mennonite
The Mennonite encyclopedia; a comprehensive reference work on the Anabaptist-Mennonite movement.
LC REFERENCE REF BX8106 .M37
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
http://www.gameo.org/
Quaker
The Quakers / Hugh Barbour and J. William Frost.
LC REFERENCE REF BX7731.2 .B37 1988
Historical dictionary of the Friends (Quakers) / Margery Post Abbott … [et al.].
LC REFERENCE REF BX7611 .H57 2003
Religious Society of Friends – Quaker History
http://www.quaker.org/#7
Seventh Day Adventists
Historical dictionary of Seventh-day Adventists / Gary Land.
LC REFERENCE REF BX6153 .L36 2005
Seventh Day Adventist – Office of Archives and Statistics
http://www.adventistarchives.org