History
General
Jaroslav Pelikan - Credo (the new standard text in creedal/confessional history)
Bard Thompson - Liturgies of the Western Church
James F. White - A Brief History of Christian Worship
Patristics
The North American Patristics Society has a wonderful page of internet resources.
Tertullian.org - tons of church fathers!
Reformation
Horton Davies - The Worship of the English Puritans
Charles Garside, Jr. - Zwingli and the Arts
James Hastings Nichols - Corporate Worship in the Reformed Tradition
The Westminster Assembly Project
Books
John Calvin - The Necessity of Reforming the Church [on-line version] (brief defense of the Reformation)
Hughes Oliphant Old - The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth Century
Jaroslav Pelikan - Obedient Rebels: Catholic Substance and Protestant Principle in Luther’s Reformation
Articles
Larry Sibley - The Legacy of the Geneva Liturgy
Modern
D.G. Hart - John Williamson Nevin: High Church Calvinist (useful to understanding how one can be both “reformed” & “catholic” but also helpful in studying Nevin’s mistakes). See also Nick Neeham’s brief review of Nevin’s Anxious Bench.
Thomas Oden - Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements (helpful in understanding the plight of the modern church)
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If I may suggest another possible book. Hughes Oliphant Old has another book called Guides to the Reformed Tradition: Worship, which is a nice historical survey of each area of worship from the OT to the present day.
Thanks! I haven’t gotten to that one yet …