On Writing the History of the American Bible Society–Update #83

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Over the course of the last two days I have been doing some secondary reading for my chapter on the ABS involvement in the so called “benevolent” empire of the early nineteenth century. Several books have been helpful, including:

Steven Mintz, Moralists and Modernizers: America’ Pre-Civil War Reformers

Ronald Walters, American Reformers, 1815-1860

Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Anne Boylan, The Origins of Women’s Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840

Anne Boylan, Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution

Robert Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination

Lori Ginzburg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States

I also spent a good chunk of the morning doing some ABS project-related writing.  I can’t go into any more detail at the moment.  Stay tuned.

RECOMMENDED READING

Bringing the Bible to the Jim Crow South The American Bible Society in the days following September 11, 2001 The Great MyPillow Airlift