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Church History Resources
This site is a collection of history web sites for use in research. They are divided by subject and time period. Some of these pertain exclusively to Christian history and some do not. However, all may be helpful when searching for information.
General Church History Sites
- General Church History: This is a great site! It contains lots of documents from every era of Church History. Be sure to check out the Museum of Pilgrims!
- Christian History Institute: This link will connect you to a series of church bulletin inserts dealing with various church History topics.
- Church History Glossary: This site will give some concise definitions of terms you may encounter in your history reading.
- Church History Documents: This site will give you access to documents from every age of Church History.
- Fox's Book of Martyrs: Text of the book.
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Baptist History Sites
- Baptist Stuff: This page will link you to various Baptist groups as well as other Baptist organizations.
- Baptist Resources: This will link you to a research project at Regents Park College, Oxford.
- Information on Charles H. Spurgeon: All you have ever wanted to know about Spurgeon.
- Reformed Baptist Page: A site full of articles and links.
- SBC Founders Conference: Contains articles and back issues of the Founder's Journal.
- Successionism History: This site contains information on a not widely held theory of Baptist History.
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Early Church History Sites
- Early and Medieval Church History: This site contains lectures (print & audio)
- Information on the Early Church Fathers: Contains ALL the works of the church fathers.
- St. Augustine: Writings by and articles about St. Augustine.
- Early Church Texts and Archives: Lots of resources.
- Early Christian Creeds and Councils: Texts of the decisions of the councils.
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
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Medieval and Renaissance Church History Sites
- Sources for Medieval History: Articles, texts, and information on the saints lives.
- Medieval studies: This site covers almost all aspects of medieval life; art, history, music, architecture, etc.
- The Middle Ages: Another site which covers many areas of life in the middle ages!
- Medieval and Renaissance Art and Literature:This site covers a lot of ground, but concentrates mostly on England.
- Medieval Europe: Contains texts of important documents, secondary articles, and other fun stuff.
- Medieval Timeline: This site focuses on England, and is still under construction, but the biographical index is good.
- Medieval Resources: Discussion lists, databases, libraries, and texts.
- Medieval Labyrinth: Contains texts, cultural information, teaching resources, and professional information.
- Byzantine and Medieval Links: This site contains a vast amount of information - it even has its own search engine.
- The Dante Project: Contains texts and commentaries - be sure and look at the images.
- Monastic Orders and Monasteries: Contains information about the various orders.
- Christian Mysticism: Texts and Archives.
- The Italian Renaissance: Lots of informative sources on Renaissance artists and writers.
- The Crusades
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Reformation Church History Sites
- Reformation Documents: From the Magisterial and Radical phases - English documents under construction.
- Calvin's Institutes: Contains The Institutes - with important sections highlighted- and some other works.
- The Catholic Counter-Reformation: More Texts and Documents.
- Martin Luther Site: A great site focusing on Luther and his works.
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Modern Church History Sites
- Sources for Modern History: Documents from Reformation Europe to the Twentieth century.
- British and American History: Contains documents, archives and reference works.
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Denominational Sites
- Information on religious groups in Great Britain: Contains a directory of the various religious groups found in the UK.
- Church of the Brethren: Not an official church site - but full of great information.
- The Orthodox Church: Lots of information about the orthodox in both Europe and the U.S.
- The United Methodist Page: The official United Methodist information page.
- Catholics Online: Information about Roman Catholicism and other Catholic links.
- Episcopal Church: An unofficial site for the Episcopal Church.
- Presbyterian Church U.S.A.: The official church site.
- United Churches of Christ: The official site.
- Unitarian-Universalist Association: A very interesting official site.
- The Quaker Corner: Site with general info on Quakers.
- Southern Baptist Convention: The official site of the SBC.
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Other Interesting, Helpful and Fun Sites
- Catholic Resources: Lots of links to Catholic resources.
- The New Catholic Encyclopedia: Great for definitions and basic information.
- The Catechism of the Catholic Church: The most recent version.
- Today in History: Just for fun.
- FindLaw: A leading legal Web site dedicated to the United States Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court. It has historical documents, biographies, Supreme Court decisions, Federalist Papers, the Constitution, and the lives of the Founding Fathers and all Supreme Court Justices. Also, it hosts a Town Hall to share ideas on message boards, vote on constitutional issues, sign-up for free e-mail summaries of new Supreme Court decisions as they are issued, and caselaw, including US Supreme Court cases from 1893 to present.
- History Today: This a great online magazine dedicated to history.
- Philosophy and Religion Links: Various links to religion and philosophy pages.
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Articles on philosophy and philosophers.
- Index of Saints and Angels: Biographical index of Roman Catholic Saints.
- WWW Services for Historians: This site contains links to journals, discussion lists, etc. which would be helpful.
- Humanities Resources: Links for humanities research, including history and religion.
- History Online: Lots of fun, general history information.
- The History Channel: Great information and channel listings.
- New York Public Library History Links: Great Links.
- A&E Biography: Biographical information on lots of historical characters.
- American Memory: Contains changing collections from the Library of Congress.
- Guide to Reading, Writing, and Researching History: This is a very helpful site for history students - it will give you a lot of the basics for the study of history.
- PBS-Online - History: Access to PBS history programming.
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World History Sites
- World History Links: A wide range of world history information.
- Gateway to World History: Texts, links, and other resources.
- General World History: Contains general information, tables, and historical biographies.
- United States History Documents: Documents from various periods of American history.
- European History: Documents pertaining to many periods of history.
- Elizabethan England: A very well done site put together by High School students in Illinois.
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