Baptist history sampler

Below is a sampling of some of Baptist history books or historical Baptist books available online (some in better formats than others). This could be a good place for others to post links pointing us to other such books.

A Brief History Of The Liberal Baptist [i.e. Free Communion] People In England and America From 1606 To 1911 by G. W. Million and G. A. Barrett

A Complete History of Mississippi Baptists by Leavell and Bailey

A History of Anti-pedobaptism, from the Rise of Pedobaptism to A.D. 1609 by A. H. Newman

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

A History of New England Particular Baptist by Isaac Backus

A History of Ten Baptist Churches by John Taylor, 1823

A History of the Baptists, Volume 2 by John T. Christian

A History of the English Baptists by Joseph Ivimey (4 vols)

A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia by Robert B. Semple

A History of the Sabbatarians, Or Seventh Day Baptists, in America by Henry Clarke

A Short History of the Baptists by H. C. Vedder

Abstract History of the Mississippi Baptist Association for One Hundred Years by T. C. Schilling (this one has a picture of one of my wife's ancestors on p. 161)

An Old Landmark Reset by J. M. Pendleton

Campbellism Exposed or, A History of Clear Creek Church by John Taylor

Did They Dip? by John T. Christian

Fifty Years Among the Baptists by David Benedict

Fifty Years in China - An Eventful Memoir of Tarleton Perry Crawford by L. S. Foster

Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness by Z. N. Morrell

General Baptist History by D. B. Montgomery

History of Kentucky Baptists, Volume I by J. H. Spencer

History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Vol. II by J. H. Spencer

History of Middle Tennessee Baptists by John Harvey Grime

History of the Baptists of Texas: a concise narrative of the Baptist denomination in Texas, from the earliest occupation of the territory to the close of the year 1906 by Benjamin Franklin Riley

History of the Church of God by Sylvester and C. B. Hassell

History of the General Or Six Principle Baptists, in Europe and America by Richard Knight

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

Memoirs of Eld. J. N. Hall, the Peerless Defender of the Baptist Faith by Lillian J. Smith Hall

Memoirs of Elder Jesse Mercer by C. D. Mallary

Notes on the Principles and Practices of Baptist Churches by Francis Wayland

Pillars of Orthodoxy: or Defenders of the Faith by Ben M. Bogard

Public Address to the Baptist Society and Friends of Religion in General on the Principle and Practice of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions for the United States of America by Daniel Parker

Remarks on Church Discipline by Daniel Parker

The Autobiography of Elder Wilson Thompson (edited by his children)

The Baptist Mission in India by William Staughton

The Baptist Pulpit of the United States: Eloquent and Instructive Passages from the Sermons of Two Hundred Baptist Ministers by Joseph Belcher

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)

The Life, Times and Teachings of J. R. Graves by Samuel H. Ford, from The Christian Repository in 1899-1900

The Trail of Blood by J. M. Carroll

Thoughts on Missions by John Taylor

Treatise on the Two Seeds by Daniel Parker

Trial of Rev. J. R. Graves Before the First Baptist Church of Nashville (1858)

 

A History of the Baptists in Missouri by R. S. Duncan

A History of the Primitive Baptists of Mississippi from the Settlement by the Americans, Up to the Middle of the XIXth Century by Benjamin Griffin

The History of the English Baptists: From the Reformation to the Beginning of the Reign of King George I, Volume 1, by Thomas Crosby

The History of the Polk County Missionary Baptist Association (Missouri) by J. W. Haines

The Meaning and Use of Baptizein by Thomas Jefferson Conant

 

Another area that has a good deal of info online is Baptist hymn books (and related material). Here are some I've found:

A Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs by John Purify

A Selection of Hymns, for Public Worship by William Gadsby

A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors by John Rippon

Hymn and Tune Book for use in Old School or Primitive Baptist Churches by Silas Durand & P. G. Lester

Hymns Adapted to Public Worship, or Family Devotion by Benjamin Beddome

Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Edward Trivett

Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Songs, including Some Never Before in Print by Absalom Graves

North Carolina Sonnets, or a Selection of Choice Hymns for the Use of Old School Baptists by James Osbourn

Our Own Hymn-book: a Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public, Social, and Private Worship compiled by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Baptist Hymn Book by Gilbert Beebe

The Baptist Hymn Book by William Buck

The Baptist Hymn Book (Philadelphia, 1871)

The Baptist Hymnal: a Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (London, 1879)

The Baptist Sabbath-School Hymn-Book printed and sold by J. F. Winks

The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns, and Sacred Poems by Jesse Mercer

The Dover Selection of Spiritual Songs: With an Appendix of Choice Hymns, on Various Occasions by Andrew Broaddus

The Primitive Baptist Hymnal: a choice collection of hymns and tunes of early and late composition by M. J. Sears and T. B. Ausmus

The Primitive Hymns, Spiritual Songs, and Sacred Poems by Benjamin Lloyd

The Psalmist: a New Collection of Hymns for the Use of Baptist Churches by Samuel Smith and Baron Stow

The Republican Hymn Book: Containing A New And Original Set Of Hymns And Spiritual Songs, Suited To Be Sung At Society Meetings, Family Worship, Public And Social Prayer Meetings, Etc by Thomas Herbert

The Sacred Harp, Fifth Edition 1909 by James Landrum White

The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion by William Walker

Zion’s Hymns: For the Use of the Original Free-Will Baptist Church of North Carolina, and for the Saints of All Denominations by Rufus K. Hearn


A Serious Answer to a Late Book, stiled, A reply to Mr. Robert Steed's epistle concerning singing

The Breach Repaired in God’s Worship: Or Singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, Proved to Be an Holy Ordinance of Jesus Christ; With an Answer to All Objections by Benjamin Keach

A Brief Discourse Concerning Singing in the Public Worship of God in the Gospel-Church by Isaac Marlow


Baptist Hymn Writers and Their Hymns by Henry Sweetser Burrage

“I Will Sing the Wondrous Story”: A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America by David W. Music, ‎Paul Akers Richardson (this one is a Google Preview only, but you can see a good bit of stuff)