On-line resources for Unitarian & Universalist historians

• Andover Harvard Theological School Library Archives (official repository for Universalist & Unitarian minister files and congregational files)  
•  Meadville Lombard Theological School, Wiggins Library, Archives has tracts, pamphlets, and Western Unitarian materials
• 2015 Wiggins Library listing of Unitarian & Universalist serial holdings (4000 volumes) - OpenCalc spreadsheet - MS Excel spreadsheet
•  Andover Newton Seminary (ants.edu)  holds a collection of women's UU history resources and books
• Starr King School for the ministry (SKSM.EDU) 
• Tufts University archives once held the Universalist archives before they went to Harvard so they might have remnants, books, etc.
• Lombard College Manuscript Collection at Knox College Library (1853-1933) Galesburg, Illinois
• St. Lawrence University in upstate New York was once a leading Universalist seminary - check their library and archives (stlawu.edu)
• A Basic Research and Reading List: UU traditions, concerns, and history - Unitarian Universalist Association
• Unitarian Universalist Tradition: A Basic Research and Reading List -  Harvard Divinity School
• Polity Among the Unitarians and Universalists
  • books, articles, and sermons at HSL • collected by  Reverend  Peter S. Raible • designed for seminarians

Some useful links

• UU history resources • Unitarian Universalist Association
• Andover Harvard Theological Library
• Ask a Librarian at the Andover-Harvard Library •  hundreds of answers to common questions
• Religious Aspects of the American Civil War •  Harvard Divinity School - Andover-Harvard Theological Library - digital resource guide
• Pre-1900 Universalist Periodical Titles -  browser table with Universalist titles, years of publication, and Harvard library Hollis ID numbers
• Genealogy of the Christian Leader (Adobe Reader required) - flow chart showing mergers and evolution of various Universalist publications before 1900 
• Bibliography of Universalist periodicals from 1793 until 1885 - in Volume II of Richard Eddy, Universalism in America (1886) - good source of information on editors, publication dates, and locations for 180 Universalist periodicals
• Bibliography of Universalist books - in Volume II of Richard Eddy, Universalism in America (1886) - list of 2100 Universalist books, 1753-1886
• Unitarian Universalist History & Heritage Society • UUHHS
• The Harris Manchester College Archives in Oxford, England - Priestley, Martineau, Jacks, Belsham, Lindsey, etc.
• The Porter catalogue of manuscripts in Harris Manchester College - 320 page inventory - Adobe pdf file
• Conrad Wright's Bibliography of UU History • From the Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 28 (Part 1), 2001 • ALTERNATE
• Philosopedia.org - A Wiki based collection rich in Humanist, Freethinker, and Rationalist biography and information
• Humanist Library and Archives - Conway Hall, Conway Hall Ethical Society - named for Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907) - Harvard trained Unitarian minister in Washington, D.C. and  London, UK
• Humanist Archives at Meadville Lombard Theological School
• Representative women of New England. Boston: New England Historical Pub. Co., 1904. [654 pages]
• Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies -  ASARB brings together data collectors from American faith groups. Check out the 2010 census maps.
• Daughters of the Puritans. Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1905. Seth Curtis Beach.
• Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century ... edited by Thomas William Herringshaw

Archive Grid at WorldCat is "the" worldwide resource finding aid

• Unitarian documents in 3,000+ archive collections
• Universalist documents in 1,500+ archive collections
• 39+ records related to Hosea Ballou
• 24+ records Western Unitarian Association 
• Open Court Publishing Co.
• Kerr Publishing Co.

Boston Collaborative Encyclopdia of Western Theology

• Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918)
• Rosemary Radford Ruether  (1936- )
• Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
• World Parliament of Religions (1893)
• click for complete list

Brown University

• Social Resurrection, a labor hymn by Thomas Lake Harris sung to the Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Unitarian - now requires login
• Universalist - now requires login

California Digital Library

• Digital Special Collections
• California digital newspaper collection

Calisphere

• Unitarians in California history
• Universalists

Canada

• Search the 1881 Census
• Unitarian search brings up 1,268 names. 
• Universalist search bring up 3,999 names. Search and spelling variations add to that number. Try searching on  uni, univ, universal, universalist,
• Gospel messenger, or, Universalist advocate - 12 issues from 1849
• An essential source book for all things Canadian UU is the Guide to the Records of the Canadian Unitarian and Universalist Churches, Fellowships and Other Related Organizations, compiled by Heather M. Watts. Over 200 pages listing the archive holdings of various groups along with capsule biographies and congregational histories. Check WorldCat.org for libraries that have this  book.
• List of historic Canadian newspapers available on-line. Bowling Green State University

Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative - theological

• Postcards of Unitarian and Universalist Church Buildings (Harvard)
• Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative

A project of  the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools. Contains digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.

Clarence Darrow Archives

• Letters, books, pamplets, and photographs at University of Minnesota Law School

Clarence Darrow's father, Ammirus Darrow went to Bethany College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He completed his theology degree but did not become a minister. While in Meadville, Ammirus and wife Emily joined and attended the Unitarian Congregation. Vincent Silliman in a sermon on the history of the Beverly (Illinois) Unitarian Church quoted an elderly member who remembered Clarence listening to Florence Kollock preach.

• Clarence Darrow Community Center Records - University of Illinois at Chicago Library

David Ramsey Maps

• http://www.davidrumsey.com/
• Unitarians & Universalist percentage of population by state in 1880
• First Universalist Church of Minneapolis

Dictionary of Candian Biography

• Unitarian
• Universalist
• Policy on corrections  - a guide  

Digital Commons Network 

• Universalist
• Unitarian

Digital History:

• A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, & Presenting the Past on the Web

Digital Library Federation

• home page

Digital Public Library of America • DPLA

• Universalist - 1200 items
• Unitarian - 2500 items

Digital State Archives

• This site has links to digital archive websites for 50 states
• The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection can be found at: idnc.library.illinois.edu/  read "The Universalist" 1886-1897 Chicago edition

Doctor Daniel William's Library & Trust • London

• Books and documents about English Protestant nonconformity. Established in 1729. Books and letters of Richard Baxter, Joseph Priestley, Theophilus Lindsey, Francis Blackburn, Thomas Belsham, John Seddon, George Herbert, Henry Crabb Robinson, Jacob Boeme, Christopher Walton, William Law, Dionysius Andreas Freher, George Henry Lewes, George Eliot, Fanshawe family, Norman Baynes, Philip Doddridge, Isaac Watt, John Pye Smith, and others.

Documenting the American South

• Universalist
• Unitarian

Europeana.eu - images, texts, sounds, & videos

• Unitarian
• Universalist
• Miguel Servet (Michael Servetus)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Viola Liuzzo
• Stephen H. Fritchman
• FBI Records: The Vault

Five College Archive and Manuscript Collection

Also see "Triptych | tri-college digital library" down below

• Sophia Smith Religion Collection, 1734-1997 (Bulk: 1800-1950)

• Margaret Brackenbury Crook Papers, 1911-1970
  

German Baptist Brethren 

• Great denominational history website  by A. Wayne Webb
• Dunkards of northern Indiana

Google Book Search

• Unitarian
• Universalist
• Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises by William Cushing, B.A., Harvard Librarian and Indexer of the "North American Review" and the "Christian Examiner"
• Index to the Christian Examiner (1824-1869)  by William Cushing A. B.
• Index to the North American Review (1815-1877)   by William Cushing A. B.

Google Books Ngram Viewer

• Unitarian, Universalist, Unitarian Universalist

Google News Archive

• Search newspaper archives and create "timelines"

Harvard Square Library

• Unitarian Biographies • 1740-1900
• More Unitarian Biographies • addenda with 22 more
• Universalists • 40 Universalists
• Books, Harvard History, Speeches, Lectures, etc.
• Cambridge Forum (radio show) • part 1
• Cambridge Forum (radio show) • part 2

Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Andover-Harvard Theological Library
• Hollis Library Catalog
• Featured Images from Andover-Harvard Theological Library
• Unitarian Universalist Resources 
• Holocaust Rescue and Relief - Official archive of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)
• Digital Collections including the Unitarian Service Committee (USC)
• Postcards of Unitarian and Universalist Church Buildings
• Where to find digitized periodicals

Hathi Trust Digital Library • 10.5 million books at 64 universities

• Unitarian
• Universalist
• Pictures of Unitarian churches
• Universalist Register 1874 to 1918 (full view)
• The Universalist Leader 1927 to 1948 (search only)
• The Christian Leader 1926 to 1952 (search only)
• Proceedings of the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society 1980 to 1995 (search only)
• The Literary World - 1878 - 800 pseudonyms, i.e., "Aunt Fanny" for Mrs. Fanny Barrows and/or Mrs. Frances Dana Barker Gage.
• The Literary World - 1877 - 239 pseudonyms, i.e., "Christopher Crowfield for Mrs. H. B. Stowe (Harriet Beecher)

HathiTrust Digital Library • Searchable collections

• Unitarian Serials - United States - 90+ items
• Universalist Serials - United States - 30+ items
• Unitarian - United Kingdom - 8 items
• Unitarian - United States - 15 items
• Universalist - United States - 3
• Continental Unitarian - European

Historic New England

• Universalist
• Unitarian

Illinois Historic

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Illinois CARLI Digital Collections

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Hymn Time • The Cyber Hymnal

• Universalist
• Unitarian

Hymnary.org

• Universalist
• Unitarian
• Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

Illinois Historical Digitization Projects • Northern Illinois University

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Indiana Historical Society

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Iowa Digital Library

• Unitarian
• Universalist

The Internet Archive

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Ithaka S+R (Research & Consulting Service related to JSTOR)

• Introduction to the 52 page report
• Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians (52 page report)

Japan - 237 page history published in 2004

Yuniterian to Fukuzawa Yukichi / Tsuchiya Hiromasa cho.
ユニテリアンと福澤諭吉

• Unitarian

Kentucky Digital Library

• Unitarian - 960 items found
• Universalist - 580 items found
• E. M. Pingree debates N. L. Rice
• The Life of Channing by his Nephew - 1880 AUA
• Civil Rights activities in Memphis - Robert Penn Warren oral history project 1964
• Blue Grass Blade - free though magazine
• Transylvania University - Horace Holley,  Harry Toulmin Papers

Lantern Media History

• Universalist minister Clarence J Harris - screenplays, etc. circa 1915-25

Library of Congress

• American Memory
• Chronicling America - Search Newspapers - Unitarian
• Chronicling America - Search Newspapers - Universalist

Massachusetts • Digital Commonwealth • Massachusetts Collections Online

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Making of America

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Meadville Lombard Theological School - Chicago

• Wiggins Library

Media History Digital Library

• Unitarians over 200 references to Unitarians
• Universalists  over 85 references to Universalists
• Unitarian minister Walton E. Cole versus Father Charles E. Coughlin

Michigan •  Department of Natural Resources

• The Archives of Michgan
• Seeking Michigan  Civil War records, photographs, census info, plat maps, films, etc.

Minnesota Historical Society

• Unitarians
• Universalists

MNOPEDIA - Minnesota Historical Society

A resource for reliable information about significant people, places, events, and things in Minnesota history

• www.mnopedia.org/

Missouri History Museum

• Unitarians
• Universalists

The National Archives - U.K.

• Unitarian
• Universalist
• Nonconformists

National Library of Australia (NLA)

• Unitarian
• Universalist
• Trove - digitised newspapers and more from the NLA

Great Unitarian Political Leaders of Australia and New Zealand

• levlafayette.com

Newspapers On-line

New York Public Library Digital Collections

• Universalist
• Unitarian

New York Heritage - Digital Collections

• Unitarians
• Universalist
• 1880 St. Lawrence University Gridiron yearbook
• Clinton Liberal Institute

NYS Historic Newspapers

• The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

• Unitarians

Ohio Link Digital Resource Commons

• Maps, photos, dissertations

Oklahoma State University • Electronic Publishing Center

• Universalist
• Unitarian
• Search page

British Pathé

• Unitarians (Films of Brighton Unitarian Church in 1973 and Unitarian Elizabeth Gaskell's home and grave in 1943)

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - Research and Reference Guide

• Early American Literature 1700-1800
• Nineteenth Century to 1865 and Romanticism
• Nineteenth Century to 1865 and Transcendentalism

Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA)

• 100 Portraits • this page has been lost
• Chalice art

University of Michigan - Bentley Historical Library

• Digital Curation Guidelines
• Main page Bentley Historical Library
• Unitarian
• Universalist
• The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Unitarian references in "The Open Court, devoted to the science of religion, the religion of science, and the extension of the religious parliament idea."

University of Michigan - Digital General Collection

• Unitarian
• Universalist

The Minns Lectures

• Untarian Universalist lecture series

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Unitarian
• Universalist

New York Public Library - Digital Gallery

• Unitarian
• Universalist

New York Times

• Newspaper archive 1851 to 1980

Online Archive of California

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Online Books - University of Pennsylvania

• Unitarian
• Universalist

The Open Library

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Presbyterian Historical Society • the National Archivesof the PC(USA)

• Well organized denominational website

University of Richmond • Digital Scholarship Lab

• 700 maps from the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States provide national context and geographic data from 1799 to 1928
• Suffrage and woman suffrage
• table of contents

Religion in American History: A group blog

• Universalist
• Unitarian

Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals • www.iapsop.com

• Universalists
• Unitarians
• Woodhull
• Markham
• Thomas Lake Harris

Starr King School for the Ministry - Berkeley

• The Hewlett Library - Graduate Theological Union
• Research and Resources

The Surman Index

• Biographical index to U.K. Congregational (Unitarian) ministers • 1750 to 1971
• Unitarian Obituaries in the Harris Manchester College Library • the Johnston Index • 1798 to present

A Timeline of American Thought

• Philosophy, Theology, and Political Theory

Triptych | tri-college digital library • Bryn Mawr, Haverford, & Swarthmore Colleges 

• Catt Collection Suffrage Photographs
• Jane Addams (Hull House, Adin Ballou, Lydia Child, Frances Harper, Victoria Woodhull, Taft + Carnegie, etc.
• Homer Jack Button Collection
• Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Tufts University Digital Library

• Digital library
• Light on a Hill, Volume I by Russell Miller
• Light on a Hill, Volume II by Russell Miller
• Unitarian
• Universalist
• Phineas Taylor Barnum, papers, 1818-1993, 1818-1993
• William Bentley Papers and Sermons

Wales and Welsh Unitarians

• D. Elwyn Davies wrote a biographical dictionary of Welsh Unitarians, called "Giants of the Faith", it is in Welsh (Cewri'r Ffydd). After his death, his son produced an updated second edition, 366 pp. and handsomely illustrated, published by Gwasg Gomer (Llandysul, 1999). It begins with Daniel Williams (b. 1643) and ends with a brief sketch about D. Elwyn Davies,added by his son (Alun-Wyn Dafis).

University of Washington Libraries

• Unitarian
• Universalist

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

• Unitarian
• Universalist

The Internet Wayback Machine

• How the DUUB web site looked over the years

Wisconsin Historical Society • Digital Collections

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Wright American Fiction Collection at Indiana University

• Unitarian
• Universalist

Yale University Library • Digital Collections

• Unitarian
• Universalist

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