Resource Guide:
American Religious History

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
• Digital Quaker Collection
• Religious Landscape Study
• The Association of Religion Data Archives
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Catholic Education Resource Center
• Southern Baptist Convention
• God in America: The Black Church
• Timeline: Faith in America
• History of Religious Liberty in America
• The Pluralism Project
• American Jewish Archives

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.

• Religion--Study and teaching--United States.
• United States--Religion.
• United States--Religion--1901-1945.
• United States--Religion--Historiography.
• United States--Religious life and customs.

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

• Academic Search Complete
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• JSTOR
• Religion and Philosophy Collection

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
• The Ensign (LDS Church)

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.