The latest issue of Anglican and Episcopal History provides a range of exhibit, podcast, and book reviews helpful to scholars of church history. Reviews of current scholarship include:

Exhibit Reviews

Black Americans, Civil Rights and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962 – a special exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt President Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York that ran June 2023 through December 2024.

“Some auditory displays and video scan draw in younger viewers more easily than the many documents reflecting the correspondence among Civil Rights leaders and politicians from 1932. Yet, those documents give a deeper understanding of the lives of Black Americans during that time,” according to Janet Manko of the Lakeville Journal Company. “The exhibit includes information that will be enlightening for people of all ages.”

Morgan’s Bibles: Splendor in Scripture – an exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, NY (October 2023-January 2024) by Nancy Bryan of New York City

Podcast Review

“Religion in the American Experience” hosted by Chris Stevenson

Edward Rowlands hears “…a compelling resource for Americans to understand the role of religion in their national story, and a podcast that an academic and educated audience can deeply appreciate.” And that “Controversial themes of religion and American history that still blight the national conscience are discussed openly.”

Church Review

Readers enjoy a glimpse of worship on the Third Sunday after Pentecost at Grace Episcopal Church in Traverse City, Michigan. Grace Church is part of the Episcopal Diocese of the Great Lakes that was formed in 2024 by the merger of the dioceses of Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan.

11 Book Reviews including:

• The Broken Body: Israel, Christ, and Fragmentation by Sarah Coakley | Reviewed by Michael Plekon of The City University of New York, Baruch College
• On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation by Margaret R. Miles | Reviewed by Carla E. Roland Guzmán of The General Theological Seminary
• Women, Dance, and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith. Gender in the Middle Ages. Vol. 19 by Lynneth Miller Renberg | Reviewed by Nancy Saultz Radloff
• America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of Bible Civilization, 1794-1911 by Mark Noll | Reviewed by Christopher L. Webber
• An Anglo-Catholic Visionary for Modern America, collected writings of Gordan Butler Wadhams edited by Joseph F. Byrnes | Reviewed by Warren C. Platt of the Church of the Transfiguration in New York City
• Late Georgian Churches, Anglican Architecture, Patronage, and Church-going, 1790-1840 by Christopher Webster | Reviewed by William Gibson of Oxford Brookes University