Watch Tower History

The last post raised some questions when attention was drawn to a 2000 Yearbook that captioned a picture as Tom Hart. Tom Hart and Jonathan...

In June this year the blog ran a short article on Jonathan Ling, an early Watch Tower adherent in Britain, publishing a photograph of him s...

Our emails are attached to our blogger profiles. I'm on twitter. Mr. Schulz does not use any social media. There are some rules. We d...

by Jerome Rachael mentioned in a recent post that I had several articles in the planning stage for the blog. This is true and they wi...

            Clearly, Separate Identity will see a third volume. While we are sometimes disappointed by lack of detail or an in...

We are aware of Charles Arminjon's book. We need other Catholic produced end of the age books written in the 1860-1890 period.

I'm returning editorship of this blog to Mr. Schulz. I'm not leaving the project, but this blog is a total waste of time. It exists ...

Cambridge Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Number 8, 24 February 1872 — SUNDAY SERVICES. FEBRUARY 25.

While I'm not posting any of the chapter on early work in Canada (It's a waste of time), we need the names of Canadian adherents fr...

Other than rewrites and edits, we're saying our chapter on the early work in Canada is finished. We're unsatisfied with the results...

We need a volunteer to transcribe the short article by J. H. Paton found in this newspaper http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn85042400/1...

We need an extract of every reference to prophetic events in 1881 appearing in  Herald of the Morning and in Zion's Watch Tower. Can ...

Okay ... These six articles exemplify issues that arise when writing history. Analyze them. Tell us the story they tell. Submit your comme...

Writing History II             Those who write about controversialist movements are often partisan or swayed by partisan statements...

Writing History by R. M. de Vienne             There are two kinds of history: What the British call Public History and America...

First edition of Separate Identity made it to press with typos and such. We need a list of them all. We continue to work on getting an ebook...

The Flaming Sword of March 1898 said: The Morning Star says that Mr. C. T. Russell, the editor of the Watch Tower, Allegheny, Pa., ...

Rachael suggested that these might make a nice "filler" for the blog, although far too recent for the era being researched. These...

... with slight English language help from Rachael ... Ioannis Derziotis The name of the speaker is Ioannis Derziotis, the lectur...

Without engagement from blog readers, this site serves no useful purpose. We will no longer publish research for volume 2 here, but will sh...

The Facebook issue never goes away. Facebook is not a secure and safe site. You compromise us and yourself when you link to this blog. DO N...

We post some of our current project here for comments. Hopefully, the comments are educated and informed, though often that's an unreas...

Mike C. identified this as an Ink Blotter from the 1923 NYC convention. Thanks Mike.

Rough draft, temporary post. This will change. Don't rely on it. It's preliminary. Usual rules. You may make a copy for yourself. Do...

But here is what I get out of the post below. Please refine this if you can: A letter from Macedonia . – Several years ago ...

Ein Brief aus Macedonien. – Vor mehreren Jahren kam Basil Stephanoff, ein Eingeborner von Macedonien im europäischen Theile der ...

We do not have details yet, but believe he associated with Barbour up to 1878. If you have the pdf files of the Herald of the Morning for th...

We now know that Stephanoff was in America in 1885. We do not know how or when he got there? Anyone?

transcribe the article entitled Mrs. Gilbert's Mission found here http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1889-02-24/ed-1/seq...

A brief mention of Viola Gilbert from a chapter on the book Plan of the Ages: Bill Arp’s endorsement was used to promote the book to ...