Links to Online Resources
America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html
Generously illustrated with artifacts and documents from the Library
of Congress, this concise history of the Puritan movement in England
and America is very accessible to secondary level students. Part of
the Library's outstanding online exhibition Religion and the
Founding of the American Republic.
Lectures on Puritanism
Highly readable lectures from Dr. Terry Matthews for his course "Religious Life in the United States" at Wake Forest University (NC).
"The Great Migration" http://www.wfu.edu:/~matthetl/perspectives/two.html
"Puritanism in America" http://www.wfu.edu:/~matthetl/perspectives/three.html
Hall of Church History: The Puritans
http://www.gty.org/~phil/puritans.htm
A good starting-off point for exploring web resources on Puritan leaders and sermons. Billed by its author as "Theology from a Bunch
of Dead Guys," this page is the work of Phillip Johnson, director of
Grace to You, a Christian tape and radio ministry.
Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
http://www.puritansermons.com/index.htm
Over one hundred writings by and about the Puritans, Scottish
Divines and other Reformed authors are offered on this site--sermons, poetry, historical and biographical articles, a Puritan Quote
of the Week, web links, and more. Well maintained by a Michigan
pharmacist who hopes that "many people who are intimidated by the
Puritans will come to appreciate them, if they are administered in
small doses."
The Bay Psalm Book
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm004.html
A facsimile page from this 1641 Puritan hymnal (click on the
thumbnail for a full screen image), from American Treasures of the
Library of Congress at
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
A tithing man's church stick
http://www.materialreligion.org/objects/dec96obj.html
A colonial "object of the month" from the The Material History of
American Religion Project of Columbia Theological Seminary. Be
sure to peruse the other intriguing objects from American religious
history.
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