American Baptist Historical Society

The American Baptist Historical Society, a premier religious historical society, advances Baptist identity, promotes historical literacy, and thereby inspires spiritual and social transformation.

The American Baptist Historical Society (ABHS) holds the archives and serves as the historical interpreter of a major religious denomination — American Baptist Churches USA, formerly known as the Northern Baptist Convention — made up of 4,900 churches and 1.2 million people.  In addition, ABHS archival collections include records from many different Baptist organizations in North America and around the world. As the oldest Baptist historical society (founded in 1853) with the largest and most diverse collection of Baptist historical material, our holdings are of irreplaceable value to church, national, and global history.

ABHS serves as keeper of the record of the modern missionary movement.  Our shelves hold unparalleled resources documenting African-American church associations, women’s work, local church and association minutes, and the social gospel movement.

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