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title: 'William B. Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit — A Biographical Classic'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2017-11-26
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2017-william-b-spragues-annals-of-the-american-pulpit-a-biographical-classic
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# William B. Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit — A Biographical Classic

[William Buell Sprague’s](/authors/william-buell-sprague) (1795-1876) *Annals of the American Pulpit* (9 vols., 1858-1869) is one of the great classics of biographical church history. If you enjoy reading biographies of early American Presbyterians, Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians, Congregationalists and more, you have just discovered a gold mine. Sprague was comprehensive in his scope, thorough in his research, judicious in his selections, and eloquent and edifying in his discourses. Solid Ground Christian Books has [republished his volumes on the Baptists and Presbyterians](http://www.solid-ground-books.com/search.asp?searchtext=annals). The whole set, [now available online to read at Log College Press](/authors/william-buell-sprague), is as follows:

- *Annals of the American Pulpit*, Vol. 1 (Trinitarian Congregational)
- *Annals of the American Pulpit*, Vol. 2 (Trinitarian Congregational)
- *Annals of the American Pulpit*, Vol. 3 (Presbyterian)
- *Annals of the American Pulpit*, Vol. 4 (Presbyterian)
- *Annals of the American Pulpit*, Vol. 5 (Episcopalian)
- *Annals of the American Pulpit*, Vol. 6 (Baptist)
- *Annals of the American Pulpit*, Vol. 7 (Methodist)
- *Annals of the American Pulpit*, Vol. 8 (Unitarian Congregational)
- *Annals of the American Pulpit*, Vol. 9 (Lutherans, Reformed Dutch, Associate, Associate Reformed, Reformed Presbyterian)