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Episcopal Church History: Basic Sources
General Histories
James
Thayer Addison. The Episcopal
Church in the United States, 1789-1931. (1951)
(BX5880 .A33)
Raymond
W. Albright. A History of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. (1964)
(BX5880 .A4)
Ken
Clark and Charlie Steen. Making Sense of the Episcopal Church
: An Introduction to Its History. (1996) (BX5880 .C57
1996)
David
Lynn Holmes. A Brief History
of the Episcopal Church. (1993)
(BX5880 .H74 1993)
William
Wilson Manross. A History
of the American Episcopal Church. (1950)
(BX5880 .M35 1950)
Robert
W. Prichard. A History of
the Episcopal Church. (1991).
(BX5880 .P75 1991)
Frederick
Quinn. To Be a Pilgrim :
the Anglican Ethos in History . (2001).
(BX5055.3 .Q56 2001)
Don
S. Armentrout and Robert B. Slocum, editors. An
Episcopal Dictionary of the Church : a User-Friendly Reference for
Episcopalians . (2000).
(BX5007 .E65 2000)
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Histories of EDS
Matthew Cadwell. A History of Episcopal Divinity School :
In Celebration of its Twenty-fifth Anniversary. (2000) (In
Reference and Stacks at BV4070 .E66 C32 2000)
George L. Blackman. Faith and Freedom : a Study of Theological Education
and the Episcopal Theological School. (1967) (In Reference and Stacks at BV4070.C36 B55)
James Arthur Muller. The Episcopal Theological School, 1867-1943. (1943) (Reference BV4070.C36 M8)
William Lawrence. Seventy-three years of the Episcopal Theological
School, Cambridge : a narrative. (1940) (BV4070.E66 L38)
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Documents
Don
S. Armentrout and Robert B. Slocum, editors. Documents
of Witness : a History of the Episcopal Church, 1782-1985.
(Ref BX5880 .D62 1994)
A documentary history including 165 Church documents, reports,
sermons, biographical selections, letters, addresses, and pastoral
letters. Includes bibliographical references and index.
G.R. Evans and J.
Robert Wright, editors. The Anglican Tradition: a Handbook
of Sources. (Reference and Stacks BX5005 .A54 1991)
Kenneth Walter Cameron,
editor. Facsimiles of Early Episcopal Church Documents (1759-1789).
(BX5881 .F3 1970)
Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook,
editor. Freedom is a Dream: a Documentary History of Women
in the Episcopal Church. (BX5968.5 .F74 2002)
Robert
W. Prichard, editor. Readings
from the History of the Episcopal Church. (BX5880 .R43 1986)
Tracts, sermons and lectures, catechetical writing, biography,
essays, and reports from ten different periods of the Episcopal
Church’s history.
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Bibliographies
Sandra M. and Ronald J. Caldwell.
The History of the Episcopal
Church in America, 1607-1991 : a Bibliography. (Ref
Z7845.A5 C34 1993)
Lists major reference
works, general histories, histories of specific periods, biographies
and local histories. Chapter IV lists “Topical Works” on such
subjects as African Americans, Anglo-Catholicism, and Missions.
Earl
Johnson. African Americans
in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a Comprehensive Bibliography.
(1975)
(Ref Z7845 .A5 J6)
Sandra
Hughes Boyd. “The History of Women in the Episcopal Church: A
Select Annotated Bibliography.” Historical
Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, vol. 50, no.
4, December 1981, p. 423-433.
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“Episcopal Women’s History.” (Extends the bibliography in the
Historical Magazine)
In Cultivating Our Roots:
A Guide to Gathering Church Women’s History (1984), p. 103-110.
(BX5883 .C847 1984)
See also: Annual bibliographies reprinted from The Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church (see “Periodicals,”
below.) Bibliographies
for 1965-1970 are shelved as booklets in Reference, at Z7845 .A5
E3. Those for 1971-72 can be found in the journal itself: vol. 41,
no. 3, and vol. 42, no. 4.
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Periodicals
Anglican
and Episcopal History (formerly The
Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
until 1987), a quarterly journal. Recent issues are shelved
in Current Periodicals on the Lower Level; back copies are in
Bound Periodicals, shelved separately under both the current
and the former title. Articles on specific topics can be found
by using the ATLA Religion Database
database; the yearly index in each volume of the journal
itself; or the cumulative indexes in vols. 23, 33, 43,
53, and 63.
Church
History, quarterly journal of the American Society of Church
History. Articles and reviews on specific topics can be found
by using the ATLA Religion Database
database.
Journal
of the Canadian Church Historical Society. Articles and
reviews on specific topics can be found by using the ATLA Religion Database
database.
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Current Events
The
General Convention Includes a link to the website
of the 2003 General Convention. The "Publications"
link provides access to the Summary of Actions for that
Convention, as well as the Constitution and Canons of
the 2000 General Convention and other Convention documents.
Digital
Archives of the Episcopal Church Includes Acts
of Convention, 1976-2000, and other important church documents
and news from recent years.
Episcopal News
Service Includes news bulletins and feature stories.
Anglican
Communion News Service Search the Archives for
articles back to 1995.
Episcopal
Life National monthly newspaper of the Episcopal
Church. The latest year of the print edition is available in
the Library atrium.
Episcopal
Times Official news publication of the Episcopal Diocese
of Massachusetts. The latest year of the print edition is available
in the Library atrium.
The Witness
Critical analysis of Anglican and Episcopal events and topics.
Click on 'Back Print Issues' for an archive of articles since
2000. The print edition (which ceased after the July/August
2003 issue) is available in the Periodical stacks on the lower
level. Religion
Newswriters Association -- Links to "Today's Headlines"
in religion news.
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Searching by Subject in the Online Catalog:
Suggested Subject
Headings
Use these to 'Browse' by Subject
in the Online Catalog
(but omit the hyphens when typing in the headings). Additional
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United States -- Church history -- [xxth Century]
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History
Episcopal Church -- History -- [xxth Century]Episcopal Church -- [state]
-- History
Episcopal Church -- Diocese of [place] -- History
For
historical persons, use the name as your subject heading: e.g.,
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Jones, Absalom
Perkins, Frances
Elizabeth I
For history
of specific topics, start with that topic and add the name of
the church: e.g.,
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Ordination of Women -- Episcopal Church
Liturgy
-- History -- Episcopal Church
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