These are secondary sources that you can't ignore! You will find them very helpful in any historical paper on the Assemblies of God.
Secondary Books
Anderson, Robert Mapes. Vision of the Disinherited: The Making of American Pentecostalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Balmer, Randall H. Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism. Vol. Rev. and expanded ed. Waco, TX: Baylor University, 2004.
________. Evangelicalism in America. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2016.
Blumhofer, Edith. Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Brumback, Carl. Suddenly From Heaven: A History of the Assemblies of God. Springfield: Gospel Publishing House, 1961.
Foster, Fred. Think It Not Strange. Need city: Pentecostal Publishing House, 1965.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Kenyon, Howard. Ethics in the Age of the Spirit: Race, Women, War, and the Assemblies of God. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2019.
Liardon, Robert. Maria Woodworth-Etter. Shippensburg: Harrison House Publishers, 2000.
Lindsay, Gordon. John G. Lake, Apostle to Africa. Dallas: Christ for the Nations, 1972.
Marsden, George. Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
McGee, Gary B. People of the Spirit: The Assemblies of God. Springfield: Gospel Publishing House, 2014.
McLoughlin, William G. Modern Revivalism: Charles Grandison Finney to Billy Graham. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1959.
________. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Mead, Sidney E. The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
Smith, Timothy L. Revivalism and Social Reform: American Protestantism on the Eve of the Civil War. Nashville: Abingdon, 1957.
Sweet, William W. Revivalism in America: Its Origin, Growth, and Decline. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1945.
________. The Story of Religion in America. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930.
Wacker, Grant. Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Warner, Wayne E. “The St. Louis Era.” Assemblies of God Heritage 1, no. 1 (Fall 1981): 1-2.
________. The Woman Evangelist: The Life and Times of Charismatic Evangelist Maria B. Woodworth-Etter. Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1986.
Secondary Articles and Dissertations
Baer, Jonathan Richard. “Perfectly Empowered Bodies: Divine Healing in Modernizing America.” Order No. 3046120, Yale University, 2002.
Barfoot, Charles H., and Gerald T. Sheppard. “Prophetic vs. Priestly Religion: The Changing Role of Women Clergy in Classical Pentecostal Churches.” Review of Religious Research 22, no. 1 (1980): 2–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/3510481.
Blumhofer, Edith. “Alexander Boddy and the Rise of Pentecostalism in Great Britain.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. 8, no. 1 (1986): 31–40.
________. “‘That Old‐time Religion’: Aimee Semple McPherson and Perceptions of Pentecostalism, 1918–26.” Journal of Beliefs & Values, 25:2 (2004): 217-227. DOI: 10.1080/1361767042000251627.
________. “The Finished Work of Calvary: William H. Durham and a Doctrinal Controversy,” Assemblies of God Heritage, Fall 1983: 9–10.
________. “The ‘Overcoming Life’: A Study in the Reformed Evangelical Origins of Pentecostalism” (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1977),
________. “Women in Pentecostalism.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 57 (2003): 101-122.
Cavaness, Barbara. “God Calling: Women in Assemblies of God Missions.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (Spring 1994): 50–51.
Clayton, Allen L. “The Significance of William H. Durham for Pentecostal Historiography.” Pneuma: the Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 1, no. 1 (1979): 27–42.
Duncombe, Chas. H. E. “Pulling them out of the fire: Evangelism is our supreme task.” Pentecostal Evangel, May 6, 1951, 4.
Edson, William D., and John H. White. “Lima Locomotive Works.” The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin, no. 123 (1970): 81–102. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43518352.
“Fellowship Overview,” World Assemblies of God Fellowship Website, (accessed April 15, 2023), https://worldagfellowship.org/Fellowship/Overview.
Goff, James Rudolph, Jr. “Fields White Unto Harvest: Charles F. Parham and the Missionary
Origins of Pentecostalism (Kansas).” Order No. 8718880, University of Arkansas, 1987.
Gohr, Glenn. “A. G. Garr.” Enrichment (Spring 2006): 8-10.
________. “D. C. O. Opperman’s Short-Term Bible Schools.” Assemblies of God Heritage 11 (Spring 1991): 6–7.
________. “The Historical Development of the Statement of Fundamental Truths.” Assemblies of God Heritage 32 (2012): 60-66.
Hamilton, Blain Charles. “The Spirit in Black and White: Early Twentieth-Century Pentecostals and Race Relations, 1905-1945.” Order No. 10673395, Rice University, 2014.
“Historical GIS: 1840-1845-1850-1861-1870.” Railroads and the Making of Modern America History Project, University of Nebraska. https://railroads.unl.edu/resources/
Johnston, Robin M. “Howard A. Goss: A Pentecostal Life.” Order No. 3424337, Regent University, 2010.
Kirby, James E. “Dearest Ellen.” Methodist History 42 (April 2004): 135–47.
McLoughlin, William G. “Aimee Semple McPherson: ‘Your Sister in the King’s Glad Service’1.” The Journal of Popular culture. I, no. 3 (1967): 193–217.
Menzies, Robert. “R. A. Torrey’s Enduring Theological Legacy: The Pentecostal Movement.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2018.
Miskov, Jennifer A. “Carrie Judd Montgomery: A Passion for Healing and the Fullness of the Spirit,” Assemblies of God Heritage 32 (2012): 8 (need full page numbers).
Oberg, Ruthie Edgerly. “This Week in AG History – May 24, 1941,” Assemblies of God Website, https://news.ag.org/en/Features/This-Week-in-AG-History-May-24-1941.
Peterson, H. C. and Gilbert Fite. Opponents of War, 1917-1918. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957.
Robins, Roger. “A Chronology of Peace: Attitudes Toward War and Peace in the Assemblies of God: 1914-1918.” Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 6 (Spring 1984): 3-25.
Schultze, Quentin J. Review of Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture, by Edith L. Blumhofer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Journal of American History 81, no. 2 (September 1994): 736–7.
Schuster, Elizabeth. “Honoring Glad Tidings Tabernacle New York, On Its 50th Anniversary.” Pentecostal Evangel, May 5, 1957, 16.
Silliman, Daniel. “An Evangelical is Anyone Who Likes Billy Graham: Defining Evangelicalism with Carl Henry and Networks of Trust.” Church History 90, no. 3 (September 2021): 621-43. https://doi:10.1017/S000964072100216X.
“Statement of Faith.” World of Assemblies of God Fellowship Website, (accessed April 15, 2023), https://worldagfellowship.org/Fellowship/Bylaws-Membership-Position-Papers.
Stephens, Randall James. “‘The Fire Spreads’: The Origins of the Southern Holiness and Pentecostal Movements.” Order No. 3117379, University of Florida, 2003.
Taylor, Malcolm John. “Publish and Be Blessed: A Case Study in Early Pentecostal Publishing History, 1906-1926.” Dissertation, University of Birmingham, 1994.
“Technology, Modernity, and the U.S. South Before the Civil War.” Railroads and the Making of Modern America History Project, University of Nebraska, https://railroads.unl.edu/views/item/ga_cotton_1860?p=1.
Wacker, Grant. “The Functions of Faith in Primitive Pentecostalism.” The Harvard Theological Review 77, no. 3/4 (1984): 353–75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1509465.
________. “The Holy Spirit and the Spirit of the Age in American Protestantism, 1880-1910.” The Journal of American History 72, no. 1 (1985): 45–62.
Wood, Stephen E. “The Development of Arkansas Railroads Part 1.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 7, no. 2 (1948): 103–40.
________. “The Development of Arkansas Railroads, Part 2,” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 7, no. 3 (1948): 155-193. https://doi.org/10.2307/40037853.
Anderson, Robert Mapes. Vision of the Disinherited: The Making of American Pentecostalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Balmer, Randall H. Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism. Vol. Rev. and expanded ed. Waco, TX: Baylor University, 2004.
________. Evangelicalism in America. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2016.
Blumhofer, Edith. Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Brumback, Carl. Suddenly From Heaven: A History of the Assemblies of God. Springfield: Gospel Publishing House, 1961.
Foster, Fred. Think It Not Strange. Need city: Pentecostal Publishing House, 1965.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Kenyon, Howard. Ethics in the Age of the Spirit: Race, Women, War, and the Assemblies of God. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2019.
Liardon, Robert. Maria Woodworth-Etter. Shippensburg: Harrison House Publishers, 2000.
Lindsay, Gordon. John G. Lake, Apostle to Africa. Dallas: Christ for the Nations, 1972.
Marsden, George. Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
McGee, Gary B. People of the Spirit: The Assemblies of God. Springfield: Gospel Publishing House, 2014.
McLoughlin, William G. Modern Revivalism: Charles Grandison Finney to Billy Graham. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1959.
________. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Mead, Sidney E. The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
Smith, Timothy L. Revivalism and Social Reform: American Protestantism on the Eve of the Civil War. Nashville: Abingdon, 1957.
Sweet, William W. Revivalism in America: Its Origin, Growth, and Decline. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1945.
________. The Story of Religion in America. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930.
Wacker, Grant. Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Warner, Wayne E. “The St. Louis Era.” Assemblies of God Heritage 1, no. 1 (Fall 1981): 1-2.
________. The Woman Evangelist: The Life and Times of Charismatic Evangelist Maria B. Woodworth-Etter. Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1986.
Secondary Articles and Dissertations
Baer, Jonathan Richard. “Perfectly Empowered Bodies: Divine Healing in Modernizing America.” Order No. 3046120, Yale University, 2002.
Barfoot, Charles H., and Gerald T. Sheppard. “Prophetic vs. Priestly Religion: The Changing Role of Women Clergy in Classical Pentecostal Churches.” Review of Religious Research 22, no. 1 (1980): 2–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/3510481.
Blumhofer, Edith. “Alexander Boddy and the Rise of Pentecostalism in Great Britain.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. 8, no. 1 (1986): 31–40.
________. “‘That Old‐time Religion’: Aimee Semple McPherson and Perceptions of Pentecostalism, 1918–26.” Journal of Beliefs & Values, 25:2 (2004): 217-227. DOI: 10.1080/1361767042000251627.
________. “The Finished Work of Calvary: William H. Durham and a Doctrinal Controversy,” Assemblies of God Heritage, Fall 1983: 9–10.
________. “The ‘Overcoming Life’: A Study in the Reformed Evangelical Origins of Pentecostalism” (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1977),
________. “Women in Pentecostalism.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 57 (2003): 101-122.
Cavaness, Barbara. “God Calling: Women in Assemblies of God Missions.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (Spring 1994): 50–51.
Clayton, Allen L. “The Significance of William H. Durham for Pentecostal Historiography.” Pneuma: the Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 1, no. 1 (1979): 27–42.
Duncombe, Chas. H. E. “Pulling them out of the fire: Evangelism is our supreme task.” Pentecostal Evangel, May 6, 1951, 4.
Edson, William D., and John H. White. “Lima Locomotive Works.” The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin, no. 123 (1970): 81–102. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43518352.
“Fellowship Overview,” World Assemblies of God Fellowship Website, (accessed April 15, 2023), https://worldagfellowship.org/Fellowship/Overview.
Goff, James Rudolph, Jr. “Fields White Unto Harvest: Charles F. Parham and the Missionary
Origins of Pentecostalism (Kansas).” Order No. 8718880, University of Arkansas, 1987.
Gohr, Glenn. “A. G. Garr.” Enrichment (Spring 2006): 8-10.
________. “D. C. O. Opperman’s Short-Term Bible Schools.” Assemblies of God Heritage 11 (Spring 1991): 6–7.
________. “The Historical Development of the Statement of Fundamental Truths.” Assemblies of God Heritage 32 (2012): 60-66.
Hamilton, Blain Charles. “The Spirit in Black and White: Early Twentieth-Century Pentecostals and Race Relations, 1905-1945.” Order No. 10673395, Rice University, 2014.
“Historical GIS: 1840-1845-1850-1861-1870.” Railroads and the Making of Modern America History Project, University of Nebraska. https://railroads.unl.edu/resources/
Johnston, Robin M. “Howard A. Goss: A Pentecostal Life.” Order No. 3424337, Regent University, 2010.
Kirby, James E. “Dearest Ellen.” Methodist History 42 (April 2004): 135–47.
McLoughlin, William G. “Aimee Semple McPherson: ‘Your Sister in the King’s Glad Service’1.” The Journal of Popular culture. I, no. 3 (1967): 193–217.
Menzies, Robert. “R. A. Torrey’s Enduring Theological Legacy: The Pentecostal Movement.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2018.
Miskov, Jennifer A. “Carrie Judd Montgomery: A Passion for Healing and the Fullness of the Spirit,” Assemblies of God Heritage 32 (2012): 8 (need full page numbers).
Oberg, Ruthie Edgerly. “This Week in AG History – May 24, 1941,” Assemblies of God Website, https://news.ag.org/en/Features/This-Week-in-AG-History-May-24-1941.
Peterson, H. C. and Gilbert Fite. Opponents of War, 1917-1918. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957.
Robins, Roger. “A Chronology of Peace: Attitudes Toward War and Peace in the Assemblies of God: 1914-1918.” Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 6 (Spring 1984): 3-25.
Schultze, Quentin J. Review of Restoring the Faith: The Assemblies of God, Pentecostalism, and American Culture, by Edith L. Blumhofer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Journal of American History 81, no. 2 (September 1994): 736–7.
Schuster, Elizabeth. “Honoring Glad Tidings Tabernacle New York, On Its 50th Anniversary.” Pentecostal Evangel, May 5, 1957, 16.
Silliman, Daniel. “An Evangelical is Anyone Who Likes Billy Graham: Defining Evangelicalism with Carl Henry and Networks of Trust.” Church History 90, no. 3 (September 2021): 621-43. https://doi:10.1017/S000964072100216X.
“Statement of Faith.” World of Assemblies of God Fellowship Website, (accessed April 15, 2023), https://worldagfellowship.org/Fellowship/Bylaws-Membership-Position-Papers.
Stephens, Randall James. “‘The Fire Spreads’: The Origins of the Southern Holiness and Pentecostal Movements.” Order No. 3117379, University of Florida, 2003.
Taylor, Malcolm John. “Publish and Be Blessed: A Case Study in Early Pentecostal Publishing History, 1906-1926.” Dissertation, University of Birmingham, 1994.
“Technology, Modernity, and the U.S. South Before the Civil War.” Railroads and the Making of Modern America History Project, University of Nebraska, https://railroads.unl.edu/views/item/ga_cotton_1860?p=1.
Wacker, Grant. “The Functions of Faith in Primitive Pentecostalism.” The Harvard Theological Review 77, no. 3/4 (1984): 353–75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1509465.
________. “The Holy Spirit and the Spirit of the Age in American Protestantism, 1880-1910.” The Journal of American History 72, no. 1 (1985): 45–62.
Wood, Stephen E. “The Development of Arkansas Railroads Part 1.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 7, no. 2 (1948): 103–40.
________. “The Development of Arkansas Railroads, Part 2,” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 7, no. 3 (1948): 155-193. https://doi.org/10.2307/40037853.
