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Baptists and the American Civil War: April 30, 1861
With the arrival of war, worship services of many Baptist churches in America are disrupted. Among congregations canceling monthly services (other than in cities and large towns, once-a-month services are common in Baptist life at this time, owing in no small degree to the difficulty of transportation) after the beginning of sectional hostilities is Providence Baptist Church of Sandy Springs (later renamed First Baptist Sandy Springs) of Dunwoody, Georgia. Still a young church when the war … Read entire article »
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The Baptist History & Heritage Society (BH&HS) communicates the story of Baptists through print and digital media, publications, and conferences. Bruce Gourley is the executive director of the Society. The BH&HS is a non-profit, national, independent, diverse organization of Baptist historians and other individuals and partner institutions who are committed to communicating the story of Baptists through the study, interpretation, publication, and advocacy of Baptist history. The Society’s Mission Statement is: Helping Baptists discover, conserve, assess, … Read entire article »
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- A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (Genovese)
- Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause (Wilson)
- Broken Churches, Broken Nations (Goen)
- Chaplain to the Confederacy: B. Manly
- Conditions of Antebellum Slavery
- Creation of Confederate Nationalism (Faust)
- God's Almost Chosen Peoples: A Religious History of the American Civil War (Rable)
- Religion and the ACW (Historiography)
- Religion and the American Civil War (Miller, Stout, Reagan)
- Religion in the CW: Northern Perspective (Moorhead)
- Southern Baptists and Blacks, 1845-1895
- The Civil War as Theological Crisis (Noll)
- When Slavery Was Called Freedom (Daly)
Archival Collections (Baptists and the American Civil War)
- American Baptist Historical Society Collection (Mercer University, Atlanta)
- Georgia Baptist History Depository (Mercer University Macon)
- Samford University Special Collections (Birmingham, Alabama)
- South Carolina Baptist Historical Collections (Furman University, Greenville)
- Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Virginia Baptist Historical Society (University of Richmond)