¹ Peck used the superb archival materials of the American Missionary Association, but not comprehensively. Today these archives are easily accessible on microfilm from the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans.Google Scholar

² Fletcher, Robert S., A History of Oberlin College, from Its Foundations through the Civil War (New York, 1971). Fletcher's book was first published in 1943. Samples of revisionist writing on the nineteenth-century Protestant college include: Potts, David, “American Colleges in the Nineteenth Century: From Localism to Denominationalism,” History of Education Quarterly 11 (Winter 1971): 363–79; Burke, Colin, American Collegiate Populations: A Test of the Traditional View (New York, 1982); Findlay, James, “Agency, Denominations, and the Western Colleges, 1830–1860,” Church History 50 (Mar. 1981): 64–80; Bruce Leslie, W., “Localism, Denominationalism, and Institutional Strategies in Urbanizing America: Three Pennsylvania Colleges, 1870–1915,” History of Education Quarterly 17 (Fall 1977): 235–56; and Smith, Timothy, “Uncommon Schools: Christian Colleges and Social Idealism in Midwestern America, 1830–1950,” in Indiana Historical Society, Lectures, 1976–77: The History of Education in the Middle West (Indianapolis, 1978).Google Scholar

³ Jones, Jacqueline, Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865–1873 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1980), updates Swint's, Henry L. The Northern Teacher in the South, 1862–1870 (Nashville, 1941). See also Butchart, Ronald, Northern Schools, Southern Blacks, and Reconstruction; Treedmen's Education, 1862–1873 (Westport, Conn., 1980).Google Scholar

⁴ An excellent scholarly study of the formative years of Adventism is Gaustad, Edwin S., ed., The Rise of Adventism: Religion and Society in Mid-Nineteenth Century America (New York, 1974).Google Scholar

⁵ Very brief comments about Kellogg are in Whorton, James C., Crusaders for Fitness, the History of American Health Reformers (Princeton, 1982) and more extensively in Numbers, Ronald, Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White (New York, 1976). The only full biography of Kellogg, Richard Schwarz, John Harvey Kellogg (Nashville, 1970) is described by Whorton as “overly reverential.”Google Scholar