Join 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.
Join 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.
Gain 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).
Learn 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.
Learn 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.
Hear 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.
Learn 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.
Join 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.
Join 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.
Learn about the fascinating musical culture of Revolutionary New England and hear examples of sacred and secular music from composers like William Billings of Boston.
Join 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.
Hear our spring 2025 library interns present on their work to make the CLA’s church history collections more visible and accessible.
Explore 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.
Join 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.
Learn 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.”
Hear our spring 2025 archives interns discuss their experiences and the unique materials they discovered while processing CLA collections this semester.
Join 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.
Join 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.
Join 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.
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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