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Introductions to historical research

• Wiki MarkupBradley, James E. and Richard A Muller.  _  Church History: An Introduction to Research{_}_, Reference Works, and Methods._ Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995 \ [Ref. 270.072 B811c\]
• Wiki MarkupDanto, Elizabeth Ann.  _  Historical Research. _   Pocket Guides to Social Work Research Methods.    New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. \ [Ref. HM 571 .D36\]

Primary vs Secondary sources (from Bradley and Muller, above)

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• In the works of antiquity and Middle Ages
  • Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina/Graeca
  • Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
  • Thesaurus Linguae Gracaeunmigrated-wiki-markup
  • Consult the "Clavis" volumes in the Corpus Christianorum series for guidance to critical editions of biblical and medieval apocyrypha & pseudepigrapha, and the Greek and Latin fathers \ [Search the [catalog|https://librarycat.drew.edu] with the key words Corpus and Clavis to turn these up\]
• In American religious history, e.g....
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  • _The Works of Jonathan Edwards _Jonathan Edwards (Yale) \ [BX7117 .E3; see esp. v. 1, "[Note on the text|http://edwards.yale.edu/archive?path=aHR0cDovL2Vkd2FyZHMueWFsZS5lZHUvY2dpLWJpbi9uZXdwaGlsby9uYXZpZ2F0ZS5wbD93amVvLjA=]," p. 118\]
  • The Whitehead Research Project
  • Wiki Markup_The Works of George Santayana _George Santayana (MIT) \ [see especially catalog record, _The Last Puritan_\]

Translations (Patristics, Medieval Studies)

• Guides to choosing
  • Bibliographies in Encyclopedia of Religion   unmigrated-wiki-markup
  • Essays in The Cambridge Companion to The Cambridge Companion to .... \ [e.g. Augustine, Dante, etc\]
• Examples in series
  • Wiki MarkupLoeb Classical Library \ [Philo, Josephus, Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, etc\]  
  • Ante-Nicene Fathers; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers   
  • Wiki MarkupFathers of the Church of the Church (CUA Press) \ [Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, etc\]unmigrated-wiki-markup
  • Classics of Western Spirituality \ [Origen, Augustine, Hildegard, Julien, etc\]
  • Wiki MarkupLibrary of Christian Classics \ [Clement, Origen, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, etc)

Online primary sources fulltext

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecaeunmigrated-wiki-markup
• [Patrologia Latina|http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/patrologia-latina-pl-volumes-available-online/] \[also in print, with Patrologia Graeca: 281.1 M635; NB: these are not critical editions\Latina [also in print, with Patrologia Graeca: 281.1 M635; NB: these are not critical editions]
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)
• Google Books
• African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
• America's Historical Newspapers
• New York Times Historical
• LexisNexis
• American Decades: Primary Sources
• And see: American History: Primary Sources Online

Encyclopedias

• Online
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  • [Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church|http://www.oxfordreference.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780192802903.001.0001/acref-9780192802903?rskey=rtgIoD&result=13&q=] \ [Ref BR95 .O8\] Wiki Markup[
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation|http://www.oxfordreference.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/view/10.1093/acref/9780195064933.001.0001/acref-9780195064933?rskey=nLLzIG&result=38&q=] \ [Ref BR302.8 .O93 \ ]
  • Wiki Markup[Encyclopedia of Religion in America|http://library.cqpress.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/era/?PHPSESSID=6bs7ra0rfb15dc90feitlf9af2] \ [Ref. B2520 E52\]unmigrated-wiki-markup
  • _New Catholic Encyclopedia_, 1st and 2nd eds, 1967 and 2003 \ [Ref BX841 .N44; [online|http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/ps/displayAllBooksForSubject?subject=Religion&inPS=true&prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=madi95127 ]\]
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • Credo Reference
  • Oxford Reference Online
• Print: finding them
  • First stop: Reference Universeunmigrated-wiki-markup
  • _New Westminster Dictionary of Church History_, 2008\- \ [Ref BR95 .W496\] ] 
  • Encyclopedia of the Early Church, 1992 Wiki Markup_Encyclopedia of the Early Church_, 1992 \ [Ref. BR66.5 .D5813 \ ]
  • Wiki Markup_Patrology_, by Johannes Quasten, 1984-2006 \ [Ref. BR67 .Q3 \ ]unmigrated-wiki-markup
  • _Dictionary of the Middle Ages_, 1982-1989 \ [Ref. D114 .O94 \ ]unmigrated-wiki-markup
  • _Women and Gender in Medieval Europe_, 2006 \ [Ref. HQ1147 .E85 W66\]
  • Wiki Markup_Encyclopedia of Protestantism_, 2004 \ [Ref BX4811.3 .E53 \ ]unmigrated-wiki-markup
  • _Encyclopedia of American Religious History_, 3rd ed., 2009 \ [Ref BL2525 .Q44\]unmigrated-wiki-markup
  • _Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience_, 1988 \ [Ref. BL2525 .E53\]
  • Wiki Markup_New Dictionary of the History of Ideas_, 2005 \ [Ref CB9 .N49\]
  • and see:CHST503

Bibliography: History Compass

Printed Concordances

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• _Biblia Patristica_ \ [Ref. BR66.5 .U53\]
• Wiki Markup_Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus_ \ [Ref. PA4224 .R4 \ ]unmigrated-wiki-markup
• _The Philo Index_: _A Complete Greek Word Index..._ \ [Ref.PA4270 .Z5 B67 \ ]

Key journals

• Church History
• Journal of Early Christian Studies
• Methodist History
• Religion and American Culture
• Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

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  • United States Church History To 1775
  • Social History
  • Christianity and Justice--History
  • Christian Sociology--History
• Subject searching on subheadings
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  • su Social Ethics and  su Social Ethics and  ....  \  [e.g. Martin Luther King\] Wiki Markup
  • su Social Aspects \[or Social Conditions\] and Social Aspects [or Social Conditions] and .... \ [e.g. women and England\]   women and England]   
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