Meaghan Wright, CLA Librarian Last summer, our library intern Justin Brown-Ramsey informed staff that the copy of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the...

Richard H. Taylor, Congregational Church Historian Charles Bowles Jr., a pastor in far northern New York near the Saint Lawrence River, is someone I discovered...

Billy McCarthy, CLA Archivist The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP, was first published in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois as the...

In this blog post from 2020, former Assistant Archivist Jules Thomson shared thoughts that eventually culminated in the creation of the Black and Indigenous Research...

Zachary Bodnar, CLA Archivist Among the many books and pamphlets that Congregationalists were reading and reacting to during the nineteenth century, especially in the lead...

Meaghan Wright, CLA Librarian Less than 18 months ago, the UCC Historical Council voted to recognize the Afro-Christian Convention as the “fifth stream” of the...