Watch Tower History

Personally, I think this merits more than two comments. Some of this has been posted here before. This is an  updated version with, we th...

Zion’s Watch Tower soon found a readership outside the obvious Age to Come and Adventist connections. In 1881 it found a regular home in ...

To help finish the current project, we need media, especially religious press, mentions of ZWT before 1887. If you have a press database pl...

c. 1910 portrait of Russell. Location unknown.

We have fifteen reviews on Amazon and scattered reviews elsewhere. Most of them [all on Amazon] are five star reviews. But a historically in...

Back on February 18 this blog published an article on Maria Ackley – School Teacher, which detailed the known activities of Maria before ...

For a number of years the school board of Allegheny published an annual report, and the one for 1875 gives some detail about schooling ...

This is just a gentle reminder for any new readers of the blog who haven’t seen the “rules” before –while we really do welcome comments –...

by Jerome This I believe is new research, which I sent to Bruce and Rachael a few weeks’ ago. Many of those from Scots-Irish stock ...

We are hemorrhaging money with medical expenses. This means we cannot afford Zoe Knox's new book: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secula...

you may want to review this older post http://truthhistory.blogspot.com/2014/07/pittsburgh-central-high-school-as-it.html

The first issue of ZWT was 6000 copies, many sent out as samples, which then continued for several months. How did people react to re...

In the previous post we asked for help in researching Maria before she married CTR. I want to thank those who contacted me by email. I ha...

Readers of this blog will be pleased to know that, in spite of current illnesses, work on the second volume of Separate Identity continues....

by Jerome If you have not looked at this blog for a little while, please look below this article for news about Rachael's stay in hos...

We brought mom home from the University Hospital today. She is still very ill and will not be able to answer your email or comments on her b...

Rachael has been in the hospital since Monday noon. As before if you want to pass on a message, you may do it through the blog. Update to ...

As of today we have completed at least in first draft fourteen chapters of Separate Identity, Volume 2. An introductory essay, three chapter...

We know of only one original of this booklet by Barbour, written after he and Russell separated. We are not at liberty to share our copy whi...