LibGuides: Primary Sources: Alternative Religions, Sects, Cults and Communes: Jehovah's Witnesses

Online Sources: Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses - The Online Books Page
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Provides links to online sources of various works by and about Jehovah's Witnesses; includes both doctrines and controversial works.
Jehovah's Witnesses - U.S. Holocaust Museum
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Access images, oral history, and articles related to the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses Broadcasting
Jehovah's Witnesses website
Primary Documents - Arnold-Liebster Foundation
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Provides access to some primary documents related to the Nazi persecution of the Jehovah's Witnesses such as: Declaration offered to Jehovah's Witnesses, Telegram from Ireland sent to Hitler by Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.
Universal Newsreels, Release 60, July 28, 1958
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"New York City U-I NEWS
Ed Herlihy One hundred and eighty thousand Jehovah's Witnesses gather in New York for what may well be the biggest religious convention in history."
Universal Newsreels, Release 61, July 31, 1958
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"New York City U-I NEWS
Ed Herlihy Converts to the ranks of Jehovah's Witnesses: 7,136 arrive at New York's Orchard Beach for the greatest mass baptism of modern times. "

At-one-ment between God and man by C. T. Russell
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Divine Plan of the Ages
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Harp of God by J.F. Rutherford
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Knocking
Call Number: BX8526 .K56 2006

PBS Documentary - Originally aired on May 22, 2007 as an episode of Independent Lens on PBS.
Millennial Dawn by C. T. Russell
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader by W. Michael Ashcraft; Dereck Daschke (Editor)
ISBN: 0814707025
Sing Praises to Jehovah
Call Number: M2131.J4 S5 1984
Why I Reject the "helping hand" of Millennial Dawn by W. C. Stevens
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

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