Resource Guide:
American Religious History
Digital Open Education Resources
- 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
Websites and Digital Archives
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
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
Research Databases
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
- WorldCat
Online Journals
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
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
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.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Founding faith : providence, politics, and the birth of religious freedom in America | BL 640 .W35 2008 |
| Religion in American life : a short history | BL 2525 .B88 2011 |
| A documentary history of religion in America | BL 2525 .D63 2018 |
| A reason for faith : navigating LDS doctrine and Church history | BX 8635.5 .R43 2016 |
| A peculiar people : anti-Mormonism and the making of religion in nineteenth-century America | BX 8645 .F58 2012 |
| The religious life of Robert E. Lee / R. David Cox | E 467.1 .L4 C77 2017 |
| Catholic Confederates : faith and duty in the Civil War South | E 489 .K73 2020 |
| The FBI and religion : faith and national security before and after 9/11 | HV 8144 .F43 F264 2017 |
| Brown Church : Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity | eBook 2020 |
| Ethics in the Age of the Spirit : Race, Women, War, and the Assemblies of God | eBook 2019 |
| Rosenberg by Any Other Name, A : A History of Jewish Name Changing in America | eBook 2018 |
| The Practice of Islam in America : An Introduction | eBook 2017 |
| Then We'll Sing a New Song : African Influences on America's Religious Landscape | eBook 2012 |
| Religion Enters the Academy : The Origins of the Scholarly Study of Religion in America | eBook 2011 |