TARA: Teaching and Research Archive for the History of Christianity
Sponsored by the American Society of Church History
Link to resource: Missionary Letters of Eunice Ott Created by: Richard Ott This website is dedicated to the letters of Eunice Ott, a missionary who served in Africa between 1950 and 1956. These personal letters, which she wrote to her family in the United States, offer a unique window into the social, cultural, and religious … Read more
Visual presentation of photos showing the complex interaction or encounters between Basel Missionaries – usually Swiss or German – and West Africans, Indians, and Chinese between 1850 and 1950.
The historical images in the International Mission Photography Archive come from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections held at a number of centers in Britain, Europe, and North America. The photographs record missionary endeavors and reflect the missionaries’ experience of communities and environments abroad.
VHMML School teaches about scripts and manuscripts, introducing learners to the sciences of paleography and codicology, as well as transcription.
VHMML offers resources and tools for the study of manuscripts and currently features manuscript cultures from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
Vivarium is the home of digitized manuscripts, art, rare books, photographs, and other resources from two Benedictine monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota. It is a searchable database delivering a variety of digital objects, with collections including material from the institutions’ history as well as their manuscript holdings.
Digital, open-access resource that uses biography to document the 2000 year history of Christianity in Africa; biographical figures include men and women, clergy and lay people, Africans and expatriates from around the world.