Resource Guide:
American Religious History

• The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories (Open Access eBook)
• Spanish Missions in California (Primary Source Set)
• Colonial Religion (Primary Source Set)
• Faithful Transgressions in The American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts
• Young American Muslims: Dynamics of Identity

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
• Timeline: Faith in America
• Religious Landscape Study
• The Association of Religion Data Archives
• Religious Liberty in America
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• God in America: The Black Church
• American Jewish Archives
• Catholic Education Resource Center
• The Pluralism Project

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• United States--Religion
• United States -- Religion -- Sources
• United States--Religious life and customs
• Freedom of religion -- United States
• United States / History / Civil War, 1861-1865 / Religious aspects
• Christianity and politics
• African Americans--Religion
• Mormon Church -- History OR Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History
• RELIGION / Judaism / History OR Judaism--United States--History
• Jews--United States--History
• RELIGION / Islam / History OR Islam--United States--History
• Muslims--United States--History
• Religion--Study and teaching--United States

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• ArchiveGrid
• Civil War: Antebellum to Reconstruction
• Credo Reference
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• Films on Demand
• HeinOnline
• Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• JSTOR
• OAISter
• Oxford Bibliographies Online
• Oxford Reference
• PhilPapers
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
• Proquest Major Dailies
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Statista
• Wiley Online Library

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• The North Star: a journal of African-American religious history
• American Jewish Archives Journal
• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Journal of the American Academy of Religion
• Extension: Awakening the Mission Spirit in America
• History of religions
• Journal of Religion

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.