Baptist History

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Authentic Details of the Valdenses (1825)

The Baptist Denomination: Its History, Doctrines, and Ordinances 
By D. C. Haynes (1856)

Baptists and the American Revolution 
By William Cathcart (1876)

The Baptists in America; A Narrative of the Deputation from the Baptist Union in England to the United States and Canada 
By F. A. Cox and J. Hoby (1836)

Benoni Stinson and the General Baptists
By A.D. Williams

The Book of Religions
By John Hayward

A Brief History of the Liberal Baptist People in England and America
By Elders G.W. Million and G.A. Barrett

Christianismus Primitivus low resolution | high resolution
By Thomas Grantham
(Read more about Thomas Grantham and his defining work.)

A Concise History of the Kehukee Baptist Association
By Elders Lemuel Burkitt and Jesse Read

The Centennial Record of Free Will Baptists (1881)

The Free Will Baptist Story 
By Damon C. Dodd (1957)

General Baptist History 
By D. B. Montgomery (1882)

George Fox, the Friends, and the Early Baptists 
By William Tallack (1868)

Historical Vindications: A Discourse on the Province and Uses of Baptist History 
By Sewall S. Cutting (1859)

A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and Other Parts of the World, Vol. 2, 
By David Benedict (1813)

A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and Other Parts of the World 
By David Benedict (1848)

A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and Other Parts of the World 
By David Benedict (1850)

A History of All Religions
By Samuel M. Schmucker

History of the Baptists in New England 
By Henry S. Burrage

A History of Baptists in the Middle States 
By Henry Clay Vedder (1898)

A History of Conservative Baptists, 3rd ed. 
By Bruce Shelley (1981)

A History of the Baptist Churches in the United States
By Albert Henry Newman

History of the Free churchmen called the Brownists, Pilgrim fathers and Baptists in the Dutch republic, 1581-1701
By J. De Hoop Scheffer and William Elliot Griffis

History of the General or Six Principle Baptists 
By Richard Knight

A History of New England with Particular Reference to the Denomination of Christians Called Baptists, 2nd ed., Vol. 1 
By Isaac Backus (1871)

A History of the Baptist Churches in the United States 
By Albert Henry Newman (1915)

A History of the Baptists 
By Robert G. Torbet (1950)

The History of the Christian Church From the Birth of Christ to the XVIII Century
By William Jones

A History of the English Baptist Mission to India 
By Baron Stow (1835)

History of North Carolina Baptists, Volume 1
By George Washington Paschal

History of North Carolina Baptists, Volume 2
By George Washington Paschal

History of the Religious Denominations Now Existing in the United States
By I. Daniel Rupp

A History of the English Baptists 
By Joseph Ivimey (4 vols, 1811-1830)

The History of the English General Baptists 
By Adam Taylor (1818)

The History of Free Will Baptists 
By I. D. Stewart (1862)

History of the Swedish Baptists in Sweden and America 
By Gustavus Schroeder (1898)

Religious Denominations in the United States
By Joseph Belcher

John Smith the Se-Baptist, Thomas Helwys, and the first Baptist church in England
By Walter H. Burgess

A Short History of the Baptists
By Henry C. Vedder

The True Story of John Smyth, the Se-Baptist: As Told by Himself
By Henry Martyn Dexter

Lectures on Baptist History 
By William R. Williams (1877)

A Perpetual Baptist Calendar and Remembrancer 
By E. O. White (1901)

A Review of the Question 
By George Augustus Lofton (1897)

A Short History of the Baptists 
By Henry Clay Vedder (1907)

The Story of the English Baptists 
By John C. Carlile (1905)

Swedish Baptists in America 
By J. O. Backlund (1933)

The Universal Register of the Baptist Denomination in North America 
By John Asplund (1794)

The Works of James Arminius in Three Volumes  |  Low Resolution Version
Volumes 1-2 translated from the Latin by James Nichols; Volume 3, which contains a brief summary of the life of Arminius, by W.R.B. Agnall, A.M.

The Works of John Smyth, Fellow of Christ’s College (Vol. 1)
By Smyth, John, d. 1612; Whitley, William Thomas, 1861-1947

The Works of John Smyth, Fellow of Christ’s College (Vol. 2)
By Smyth, John, d. 1612; Whitley, William Thomas, 1861-1947