Worship Leader Magazine recently featured a brief article from historian Mark Noll on the history of the American Hymn.
A Brief History of the American Hymn.
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For those of you unfamiliar with Mark Noll here are some other things he has contributed to. I have seen a good bit from him recently on american religious history and hymnody.
Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology
Sing Them Over Again to Me: Hymns and Hymnbooks in America
Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism
