The African Methodist Episcopal Church: A History by Dennis C. Dickerson Examines the long history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and its intersection with major social movements over more than two centuries.

Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916 by Lawrence S. Little Little engages the rhetoric and actions of male Church leaders’ foreign agenda, an agenda not merely viewed as focusing on African descendants, also but seen through a larger sociopolitical context of global imperialism.

Engendering Church: Women, Power, and the AME Church by Jualynne E. Dodson Explores the power, processes, and circumstances that brought about the new gender relations in the African Methodist Church--one of the largest African American denominations in the U.S.

Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century (Online) by A. Nevell Owens This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.

Daniel Alexander Payne: The Venerable Preceptor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church by Nelson T. Strobert This detailed biography gives highlights the bishop's life as educator, pastor, abolitionist, poet, historiographer, hymn writer, ecumenist, and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Fire in His Heart: Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner and the A.M.E. Church by William Seraile A biography of Benjamin Tucker Tanner, one of the major leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, who made significant intellectual and pastoral contributions in his roles as minister, editor, and bishop.

Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers by Richard S. Newman A biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African American church and the leading black activist of the early American republic.

In Darkness with God: The Life of Joseph Gomez, A Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church by Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson Joseph Gomez (1890-1979) was a charismatic minister who rose through the ranks of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to be ordained a bishop in 1948. He was also a teacher, civil right pioneer, scholar, writer, and humanitarian.

No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (Online) by Andre E. Johnson A history of the career of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915), specifically focusing on his work from 1896 to 1915.

Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900 by Julius H. Bailey Centers on the concept of “domesticity” and assumes it prevailed in AME families. Does not question the absence of non-European social models in post–Civil War Church members’ family lives or their desire to maintain their distinct cultural heritage and be strong US citizens.

Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916 (Online) by Christina Dickerson-Cousin Tells the story of the AME Church's work in Indian Territory, where African Methodists engaged with people from the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles) and Black Indians from various ethnic backgrounds. These converts proved receptive to the historically Black church due to its traditions of self-government and resistance to white hegemony, and its strong support of their interests.

Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture by Eric Gardner Uses the Christian Recorder newspaper to examine the denomination’s voice in sociopolitical topics that concerned African descendants but have been obfuscated, dismissed if not denied as part of US historical development.

Race Patriotism: Protest and Print Culture in the A.M.E. Church (Online) by Julius H. Bailey Examines important nineteenth-century social issues through the lens of the AME Church and its publications.

Social Protest Thought in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1862-1939 by Stephen W. Angell (Editor); Anthony B. Pinn (Editor) Examines the Church’s responses to social issues between the Civil War and the beginning of World War II.