Archives and Church Legacy: Safeguarding Your Church’s Mission and Memories
Learn about the importance of a church’s records to the legacy process and how to safeguard the memory and mission of the congregation.
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Sacred Rebellion Virtual Exhibition Tour
VirtualJoin us for an encore virtual tour of our new exhibition, Sacred Rebellion: Congregationalists in Revolutionary Massachusetts, featuring opportunities to view and discuss the exhibition with Kyle Roberts and Tricia Peone.
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Sacred Rebellion: Behind the Scenes with the Curator
VirtualJoin us for a look at what went into the creation of the CLA’s new in-person exhibition, Sacred Rebellion: Congregationalists in Revolutionary Massachusetts, with curator, Dr. Tricia Peone.
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Religion in the Lands That Became America: A Virtual Book Talk with Thomas Tweed
VirtualJoin us to celebrate the release of Religion in the Lands That Became America and hear the author speak about his new, sweeping retelling of American religious history.
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Processing in Practice: A Hybrid Lunch & Learn with CLA Interns
HybridHear our spring 2025 archives interns discuss their experiences and the unique materials they discovered while processing CLA collections this semester.
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The Wars of the Lord: A Virtual Book Talk with Matthew J. Tuininga
VirtualLearn how seventeenth-century puritans used a Christian framework to shape their spiritual and military conquests in colonial New England during the Pequot War and King Philip's War, which their clergymen called “wars of the Lord.”
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Sacred Rebellion Curator’s Tour
Congregational Library & Archives 14 Beacon Street, Boston, MA, United StatesJoin us for a special tour of our new in-person exhibition, Sacred Rebellion: Congregationalists in Revolutionary Massachusetts, with New England’s Hidden Histories Project Director and Exhibition Curator, Dr. Tricia Peone.
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Calling Holy War in Boston: A Virtual Talk with Thomas Lecaque
VirtualExplore the ways that the rhetoric of apocalyptic holy war spills across sermons, diaries, letters, and marginal notations in books from colonial New England with CLA Research Fellow, Dr. Thomas Lecaque.
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Making Local Church History Collections Accessible: A Hybrid Lunch & Learn with CLA Interns
HybridHear our spring 2025 library interns present on their work to make the CLA’s church history collections more visible and accessible.
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Sacred Rebellion Virtual Exhibition Tour
VirtualJoin us for a virtual tour of our new exhibition, Sacred Rebellion: Congregationalists in Revolutionary Massachusetts, featuring opportunities to view and discuss the exhibition with Kyle Roberts and Tricia Peone.
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The People’s Music: Religious and Political Songs of Revolutionary New England
VirtualLearn about the fascinating musical culture of Revolutionary New England and hear examples of sacred and secular music from composers like William Billings of Boston.
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Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
VirtualJoin us to learn more about a three-thousand-year-long tale of Christians encountering sex, gender, and the family and attempting to make sense of themselves and of humanity’s deepest desires, fears, and hopes.
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Sacred Rebellion Exhibition Opening Reception
Congregational Library & Archives 14 Beacon Street, Boston, MA, United StatesJoin us at 14 Beacon to celebrate the opening of our new in-person exhibition, Sacred Rebellion: Congregationalists in Revolutionary Massachusetts, featuring curator’s comments from Dr. Tricia Peone.
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Knowing Your Collection: How to Identify Church Records
VirtualLearn how to assess, identify, and label materials in your church’s archive, whether they be a bound volume, a manilla folder full of papers, or a born-digital document.
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Gone for Good? Negotiating the Coming Wave of Church Property Transition: A Virtual Roundtable
VirtualHear editor Mark Elsdon and several book contributors discuss some of the steps congregations can take to ensure their church’s legacy will be directed toward communal good rather than private interests.
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The World of Mary and Roger Williams
VirtualLearn more about Mary and Roger Williams, the influential seventeenth-century couple whose lives left an indelible impact on New England and celebrate the release of Roger Williams and His World.
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Religion and Black Abolitionism in the Era of the American Revolution
VirtualLearn about the advent of Black petitioning and other forms of antislavery writing in Massachusetts, and trace the origins of this political movement back to puritan religious ideology.
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The Afro-Christian Convention: Exploring our Deeper Roots
Congregational Library & Archives 14 Beacon Street, Boston, MA, United StatesGain a deeper knowledge and understanding of the history and legacy of the Afro-Christian Convention as the fifth stream of the United Church of Christ (UCC).
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Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England
VirtualJoin us to celebrate the release of Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England and learn about the struggles enslaved people faced when trying to maintain family relationships.
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Enslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold History of Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts
VirtualJoin us to celebrate the release of Enslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold History of Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts and learn about the never before published stories of this colonial town’s enslaved Black residents.