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William R. Hutchison, Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions (University of Chicago Press, 1987)

Robert G. Torbet, Venture of Faith: The Story of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society 1814—1954 (Judson Press, 1955)

Joseph A. Conforti, Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995)

Dana L. Robert, American Women in Mission(Mercer University Press, 1997)

Amanda Porterfjeld, Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)

Courtney Anderson, To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson (Little, Brown and Company, 1956)

Joan Jacobs Blumberg, Mission for Life: The story of the family of Adoniram Judson, the dramatic events of the first American foreign mission, and the course of evangelical religion in the nineteenth century (Free Press, 1980)

Rosalie Hall Hunt, Bless God and Take Courage: The Judson History and Legacy (Judson Press, 2005)

Edward P. Judson, The Life of Adoniram Judson (American Baptist Publication Society, 1883)

Stacy R. Warburton, Westward! The Story of Adoniram 4 Judson (Round Table Press, 1937)

Francis Wayland, A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson (Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1853)

James D. Knowles, Memoir of Mrs. Ann H. Judson (Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1831); reprinted in facsimile form in the series Women in American Protestant Religion 1800- 1930, edited by Caroly De Swarte Gifford (Garland Pub., Inc., 1987).

Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, edited by Gerald H. Anderson (Macmillan, 1998

Stephen Neill, A History of Christian Missions (Penguin Putnam, 1991)

Ruth A. Tucker, From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions (Zondervan, 2nd ed. 2004)

O Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History & Theology, edited by Richard J. Mouw and Mark A. Noll (Eerdmans, 2004); see especially Robert A. Schneider's essay, "Jesus Shall Reign: Hymns and Foreign Missions, 1800-1870"

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, if you are ever traveling in the Midwest, don't miss the "Judson Heritage Room" at Judson College in Elgin, Illinois. You'll find a colorful collection of Burmese artifacts, illustrations, and Judson paraphernalia. Call the school ahead to arrange a visit.

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