This guide is intended to serve as a starting point for researching U.S. Religious History.
This guide is not comprehensive; it does not list all of the resources on this subject or in related disciplines owned by the Library or available on the Internet. This guide serves merely as a starting point for research.
American National Biography
Encyclopedia of American Religious History
Encyclopedia of Religion in America
The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History
Search a selection of print and electronic encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other Reference books.
A History of Islam in America: From the new world to the new world order
Recent Themes in American Religious History: Historians in conversation
Religion and the American Nation: Historiography and history
God of Liberty: A religious history of the American Revolution
The Founders on God and Government
Religion in America to 1865Click the icon in the bottom right corner of the video player to view it in full screen!
An excellent way to discover additional resources is to browse for books in relevant call number ranges.
You'll find most Religion & History books on the 4th floor of the library. Start in these call number areas:
To look up additional, more specific call number ranges, consult the Library of Congress Classification Outline.
Subject headings allow you to find books according to broader and narrower topics.
Below are sample subjects. To browse for different, broader, or narrower subjects, go to the library catalog and click "Exact Search." Enter a term and click "subject."
You can start browsing for a broad subject like Education, then look for more specific subjects, such as Education England History 18th century.
Once you know some subject headings, you can also just use them as keywords during an advanced search, using the subject row.
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