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Introductions to historical research
        Bradley, James E. and Richard A Muller.  Church History: An Introduction to Research
            Reference Works, and Methods.  Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995 [Ref. 270.072 B811c]
        Danto, 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
        Primary source: "A document, datum, or artifact that belongs to the era under examination
                                and that offers the most direct access to the person or issues being studied"
                                --James Bradley and Richard Muller, Church History: An Introduction
                                to Research, Reference Works, and Methods (Grand Rapids, Mich.: 
                                Eerdmans, 1995), 39.
        Secondary sources:  "Offer information about an event but stand removed from it either in
                                time or by a process of transmission of information."  Ibid, 41.
Critical editions
        In patristics
            Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina/Graeca
            Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
            Patrologia Latina, Graeca [281.1 M635 and online]
            Thesaurus Linguae Gracae
        In American (religious) history, e.g...
            The Works of Jonathan Edwards (Yale) [BX7117 .E3; see esp. v. 1, "Note on the text," p. 118]
            The Works of George Santayana (MIT) [see especially catalog record, The Last Puritan]            
Translations (Patristics, Medieval Studies)
        A guide to choosing
            Bibliographies in Encyclopedia of Religion           
            Essays in The Cambridge Companion to .... [e.g. Augustine, Dante, etc]
        Examples in series
            Loeb Classical Library [Philo, Josephus, Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, etc] 
            Ante-Nicene Fathers; Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers   
            Fathers of the Church (CUA Press) [Clement, Tertullian, Augustine, etc]
            Classics of Western Spirituality [Origen, Augustine, Hildegard, Julien, etc]
            Library of Christian Classics [Clement, Origin, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, etc)
Online primary sources fulltext:
         Christian Classics Ethereal Library
         Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
         Monumenta Germaniae Historica(MGH)
         Google Books
         African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
        America's Historical Newspapers
        New York Times Historical
        And see: American History: Primary Sources Online
Encyclopedias
         Online
              Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church [Ref 230.003 O98o]
              Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation [Ref 270.603 O98o]
              Encyclopedia of Religion in America [Ref. B2520 E52]
              New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1st and 2nd eds, 1967 and 2003 [Ref 282.03 E92eE; online]
              Gale Virtual Reference Library
              Credo Reference
              Oxford Reference Online
         Print: finding them
              New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, 2008- [Ref BR95 .W496]        
              Encyclopedia of the Early Church, 1992 [Ref. 270.103 D622dE]
              Patrology, by Johannes Quasten, 1984-2006 [Ref. 281.109 Q1p]
              Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 1982-1989 [Ref. 909.07 D554d]
              Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, 2006 [Ref. 305.409403 W872w]
              Encyclopedia of Protestantism, 2004 [Ref 280.403 E56eE]
              Encyclopedia of American Religious History, 3rd ed., 2009 [Ref BL2525 .Q44]
              Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience, 1988 [Ref. 291.0973 E56e]
              New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 2005 [Ref 903 N532n]
Bibliography
Printed Concordances
         Biblia Patristica [Ref. 281.102 U58b]
         Complete Concordance to Flavius Josephus [Ref. 933 J83Z R412c]
         The Philo Index: A Complete Greek Word Index... [181.3 P565Z B732p]
Key journals
         Church History
         Journal of Early Christian Studies
         Methodist History
         Religion and American Culture
         Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
Library catalog
         Browse searching for geographic and period breakdowns
              Church History Primitive and Early Church, ca 30-600
              United States Church History To 1775
         Social History
               Christianity and Justice--History
               Christian Sociology--History
               su Social History and .... [e.g. monasticism]
               su Social Ethics and  ....  [e.g. Martin Luther King]
               su Social Aspects [or Social Conditions] and .... [e.g. women and England]     
Periodical Databases
         L'anne philologique
         International Medieval Bibliography
         Feminae
         Historical Abstracts
         America: History and Life
        Readers Guide Retrospective
Other humanities and general databases
         JSTOR     
        Project Muse
        Academic Search Premier
Recommended websites in church history

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