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For younger readers

Flowers, Sarah. The Reformation. Lucent, 1996. For high school readers.

Prum, Deborah M. Rats, Bulls, and Flying Machines: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation. Core Knowledge, 1999. For readers in grades 5 to 10.

Thompson, Stephen P., ed. The Reformation. Greenhaven, 1998. Provides a clear picture of the period. For high school readers.

Protestantism

Balmer, Randall Herbert. Grant Us Courage: Travels Along the Mainline of American Protestantism. Oxford University Press, 1995. An intimate look at mainline Protestantism at the close of the 20th century.

Carroll, Jackson W., and Wade Clark Roof, eds. Beyond Establishment: Protestant Identity in a Post-Protestant Age. Westminster, 1993. Focuses on each major denomination's beliefs, values, symbols, and other distinctives, with commentary by authors, historians, scholars, educators, anthropologists, and liturgists.

Dillenberger, John. Protestant Christianity Interpreted Through Its Development. Macmillan, Reprint, Prentice-Hall, 1988. 1997. History of Protestantism from the Reformation on.

Hutchison, William R. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism. Duke University Press, 1992. Surveys liberal thought in American Protestantism from the later 19th century to the early decades of the 20th century.

Jacobsen, Douglas, and William Vance Trollinger Jr., eds. Re-Forming the Center: American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present. Eerdmans, 1998. A reassessment of fundamentalist and mainstream Protestantism.

Marty, Martin E. Protestantism in the United States. Macmillan, 1998. History of American Protestantism.

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Reformation

Cairns, Trevor. Renaissance and Reformation. Cambridge University Press, 1987. On two significant movements of the 16th century.

Collinson, Patrick. The Reformation: A History. Modern Library, 2004. A concise introduction to the religious upheaval of the 16th century.

Hillerbrand, Hans J., ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Oxford University Press, 1996. Covers the diversity of religious life in the 16th century.

Lindberg, Carter. The European Reformations. Blackwell, 1996. A strong narrative supports this well-illustrated survey of the Reformation and the Counter Reformation.

MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation: A History. Viking, 2004. Winner of the National Book Award for history.

Zophy, Jonathan W. A Short History of the Renaissance and Reformation Europe: Dances Over Fire and Water. Prentice Hall, 1995. Surveys both periods in chronological order.

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