Historical Society of the Episcopal Church

Teaching Bibliography

For those teaching or reading about Episcopal history. Intended for educational purposes, such as a teaching series, church history course or personal edification. Compiled from educators in the field. Submit recommended additions to administration@hsec.us.

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History of the Episcopal Church

21st Century Publications

Booty, John. The Church in History, Morehouse Publishing, 2003.
Hein, David and Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. The Episcopalians. 2^nd ed., Church Publishing, 2005.
Prichard, Robert W. A History of the Episcopal Church: Complete through the 78th General Convention. 3^rd ed., Morehouse Publishing, 2014.

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Early 20th Century Publications

Hodges, George. Three Hundred Years of the Episcopal Church in America. Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs, 1906.
McConnell, Samuel D. History of the American Episcopal Church 1600-1915. New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1934.
Manross, William W. A History of the American Episcopal Church. New York: Morehouse Publishing Co., 1935.

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Late 20th Century Publications

Albright, Raymond W. A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church. New York: Macmillan, 1964.
Addison, James T. The Episcopal Church in the United States, 1789-1931. New York: Charles Scribner, 1951.
Chorley, E. Clowes. Men and Movements in the American Episcopal Church. New York: Charles Scribner, 1946.
Holmes, David L. A Brief History of the Episcopal Church. Trinity Press International, 1993.

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19th Century Publications

Anderson, James S. M. The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire. 3 vols. London: Rivingtons, 1845. Second edition 1856.
Caswall, Henry. America and the American Church. London: J.G. & F. Rivington, 1839.
Coleman, Leighton. The Church in America. New York: James Pott, 1895.
Perry, William Stevens. The History of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883. 2 vols. Boston: James K. Osgood, 1885.
Tiffany, Charles C. A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. New York: Christian Literature Co., 1895.
Wilberforce, Samuel. A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church In America. London: J. Burns, 1844. Second edition 1846. New York: Stanford and Swords, 1849.

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History of Anglicanism

Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History Series (Brill)
Bernard, G. W. The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church. Yale University Press, 2007.
Chadwick, Henry et al. Not Angels, but Anglicans: A History of Christianity in the British Isles. 2^nd ed., Canterbury Press, 2010.
Dickens, A. G. The English Reformation. 2^nd ed. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.
Douglas, Ian T. and Kwok Pui-Lan, editors. Beyond Colonial Anglicanism: The Anglican Communion in the Twenty-first Century. Church Publishing, 2001.
Duffy, Eamon et al. Anglicanism and the Western Christian Tradition: Continuity, Change, and the Search for Communion. Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd., 2003.
Duffy, Eamon. Reformation Divided: Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2017.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603. 2^nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. British History in Perspective series.
Marshall, Peter. Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation. Yale University Press, 2017.
Moorman, John H. R. A History of the Church in England. 3^nd ed., Morehouse Publishing, 1980.
Oxford History of Anglicanism. Oxford University Press, 2017-2018.
Schmidt, Richard H. Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality. Eerdmans, 2002.

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History of African Americans in the Episcopal Church

Anderson, Eric and Alfred A. Moss, Jr, Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthropy and Southern Black Education, 1902-1930. University of Missouri Press, 1990. Note especially information on the Episcopal Church's American Church Institute for Negroes.
Bennett, Robert A. “Black Episcopalians: A History From The Colonial Period To The Present.” The Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Vol. 43, No. 3, 1974, pp. 231-245.
Lewis, Harold. Yet with a Steady Beat: The African American Struggle for Recognition in the Episcopal Church. Trinity Press International, 1996.
Moses, Wilson Jeremiah. Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent. Oxford University Press, 1989.
Moss, Alfred A., Jr. The American Negro Academy: Voice of the Talented Tenth. Louisiana State University Press,1981. Note discussions of Episcopal priest Alexander Crummell and the Episcopal priests and laypersons who were members of the American Negro Academy.
Moss, Alfred A., Jr. "Negotiating the Color Line," in Reviews in American History, Volume 37, Number 2, June 2009, Johns Hopkins University Press, pages 273-278.
Murray, Pauli. Song In A Weary Throat: An American Pilgrimage. Harper and Row, 1987.
Shattuck, Gardiner H., Jr. Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights. University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Religion in the South series.
Townsend, Craig D. Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City. Columbia University Press, 2005.
Washington, Paul M. with David Mcl. Gracie. Other Sheep I Have: The Autobiography of Father Paul M. Washington. Temple University Press, 1994.

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History of Women in the Episcopal Church

Boyd, Sandra Hughes, "The History of Women in the Episcopal Church", Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 423-433. 1981.
Darling, Pamela. New Wine: The Story of Women Transforming Leadership and Power in the Episcopal Church. Cowley. 1994.
Harris, Barbara C. Harris & Brown Douglas, Kelly. Hallelujah, Anyhow!: A Memoir. Church Publishing, 2018.
Prelinger, Catherine M. Episcopal Women: Gender, Spirituality, and Commitment in an American Mainline Denomination. Oxford University Press. 1996.
Kujawa-Holbrook, Sheryl A., "The Dream of God Still Waits: Scholarship on the History of Anglican & Episcopal Women — A Review Essay". Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 83, No. 2, 177-195. 2014.
Harris Thompsett, Fredrica, "Hidden in Plain View: African American Episcopal Women's Histories", Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 488-492. 2005.

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History of Latinx in the Episcopal Church

Guzmán, Carla E. Roland. Unmasking Latinx Ministry for Episcopalians: An Anglican Approach. Church Publishing. 2020.
Rodríguez, Isaías A. Historia del Ministerio Hispano en la Iglesia Episcopal. Logros, Frustraciones Y Esperanzas. Diocese of Atlanta. 2015.
Wauters, Will. "The Borderland Cultures Encounter the Church and a Church Gave Birth to a New Chicano Culture". Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 393-408. 2013.

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