This site provides links to brief histories on various national Baptist groups in North America.
General histories of Baptists
Baptist History website includes a wealth of material, mostly in typescript form, on Baptist history in general and information on certain geographical areas.
Annuals - Associational
- Alabama Baptist associations
- Arkansas Baptist Associational annuals
Early Arkansas Baptist associational annuals up to 1920. - Primitive Baptist Associations Collection
Primitive Baptist Association minutes from North Carolina (spanning years 1800-2010) and Virginia (spanning years 1915-1962).
Annuals - National
Annuals - State
- Alabama Baptist Convention Annuals, 1823-1913
- Arkansas Baptist Convention annuals, 1848-1900
Project of Ouachita Baptist University Special Collections Department. - Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma Annuals, 1907-
- Baptist General Convention of Texas Annuals
1848-2016
Archival Collections
- "Lost" Yale Lectures on Preaching by John A. Broadus, 1889
In 1889, John A. Broadus delivered the Yale Lectures on Preaching (Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching) at Yale University’s Marquand Hall Chapel. These lectures were unpublished, and for many years they were known as the “Lost Yale Lectures.” - Primitive Baptist Library and Archives Collection
Materials loaned to the Archives and Special Collections at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary by the Primitive Baptist Library and Archives for digitization. Includes church records, association minutes, and other items spanning years 1799-2006. - Selsus E. Tull Sermons.
Baylor University Libraries Digital Collections.Includes handwritten sermon notes with searchable transcriptions of longtime Baptist minister.
Biographies
- Baptist History Homepage
includes typescripts of over 650 Baptists. - North American Baptist Conference early leaders.
- Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives
(selected biographies, typescripts)
Books and Pamphlets
- Baptist Studies Online.
Primary Source Library. Typescripts of items. - Baptists in the 19th century writings.
Founders Online (typescripts) - Boothe, Charles Octavius. "Cyclopedia of the colored Baptists of Alabama: their leaders and their work."
- Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists
- Free Baptist Cyclopaedia.
- Graves, C. F. "The story of the Negro Baptists of North Carolina, 1620-1955. "
- Primitive Baptist books and pamphlets. Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church.
- Southern Baptist Convention Handbook
1921-1933 - Southern Baptist Periodical Index, 1965-1984.
- Starr, Edward. Baptist Bibliography.
College and University Student Newspapers (archived issues)
Historical Papers and Articles
Informational Sites
- Alliance of Baptists
- American Baptist Churches, USA
- Baptist Bible Fellowship International
- Baptist General Conference
- Baptist General Conference of Canada
- Baptist Union of Western Canada
- Canadian Baptist Ministries
- Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists
- Conservative Baptist of America (CBAmerica)
- Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches
- Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
- Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada
- General Association of General Baptists
- General histories of Baptists
Baptist History website includes a wealth of material, mostly in typescript form, on Baptist history in general and information on certain geographical areas. - National Association of Free Will Baptists
- National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.
- National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
- North American Baptist Conference
- Progressive National Baptist Convention
- Seventh Day Baptists
- Southern Baptist Convention
Newspapers
- Baptist and Reflector
(formerly Tennessee Baptists), 1835-1939, 2000-2008 - Baptist Messenger
News journal of Oklahoma Baptists, 1912-present - Baptist Press news releases, 1948-1996
- Baptist Record
Mississippi Baptist newspaper, 1877-1955 - Baptist World/Baptist Argus, 1897-1919
The Baptist Argus began publication on October 28, 1897 in Louisville, Kentucky. Under the masthead motto “Watch and Pray,” the Argus published information on Baptist events. Name changed from Baptist Argus to Baptist World in 1909. - Biblical Recorder
North Carolina Baptist newspaper, 1833-1971 - California Southern Baptist, 1941-2002
Oral History Collections
Periodicals
- Baptist Informer, 1946-2014 (scattered)
The official organ of the General Baptist Convention of North Carolina - Baptist magazines and journals
(19th century) FROM GOOGLE BOOKS. - Baptist Quarterly
Site includes links to pdf articles included in the Baptist Quarterly, which succeeded and incorporated the Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society in 1922. - Commission
Publication of the Foreign Mission Board, SBC. - Foreign Mission Journal, 1874-1916
Mission journal of the Foreign Mission Board, SBC. - Helping Hand, Woman’s Baptist Missionary Society, 1892-1911.
- Home and Foreign Fields, 1916-1937.
- Home and Foreign Journal, 1868-1874
Southern Baptist mission journal. - Men on Mission
Quarterly publication of the North Carolina Baptist Men, 1994-2000 - Morning Star
monthly periodical published from 1842 to 1942 in the Sgaw Karen language by the American Baptist Mission Press in Myanmar (Burma) - Our Home Field and Home Field, 1906-1916
Mission journal of the Home Mission Board, SBC. - Our Mission Fields, 1906-1914; and Royal Service, 1914-1978.
Woman’s Missionary Union, SBC publications. - Outlook, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1952-2012
Quarterly publication of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC, 1952-2012 - Signs of the Times
Monthly Primitive Baptist publication, 1832-2014 - The Faith and Free Press/Southern Baptist Free Press, 1956-1963 (scattered)
Monthly publication of the Committee for Baptist church autonomy, Inc. in North Carlina, - Zion's Landmarks
Primitive Baptist publication, North Carolina, 1869-1877
Photographic Collections
- American Theological Library Association. Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative.
101 portraits of Baptists notables. - Baptist church postcards.
- Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives Photographs
(selected images) - Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Selected photographs from the seminary photo collection.
Research Reports and Studies
Sermons (audio version/text)
- Criswell, W. A. Sermons.
Criswell Sermon Library. - SBC Pastor's Conference Sermons
1962-1994 - SBC Presidential Addresses
1922-1923, 1951-2018 - Southern Baptist Convention Sermons
1846-2018 - Spurgeon, Charles Sermons
Over 200 of Spurgeon’s sermons from his time at New Park Street Church - Truett, George W. Sermons.
Baylor Digital Collections.