Hear the story of genealogy’s attraction and power for individuals, families, and institutions in eighteenth-century British America that shaped Early America and American society today.
This spotlight symposium, co-sponsored by The New England Quarterly and the Congregational Library & Archives, focused on the religious thinkers and ideas that shaped the American Revolution.
Learn how Massachusetts church records, digitized and made available through our New England Hidden Histories project, reveal a more realistic picture of the Indigenous-English Congregational experience.
Explore the legacy of New England’s supernatural landscape, hear ghost stories drawn from Congregational history, and view rare books and manuscripts from the CLA’s collections.
Explore the legacy of New England’s supernatural landscape, hear ghost stories drawn from Congregational history, and view rare books and manuscripts from the CLA’s collections.
Explore accessioning, the process a church engages in when working with an archive to donate materials, and understand the basics of a gift agreement.
Mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the American Unitarian Association after a generations-long family quarrel within the Congregational churches of Massachusetts and reflect on the groups’ shared legacies of Congregationalism.
Celebrate twenty years of NEHH and the launch of our new digital exhibition, NEHH@20: Re-Examining Stories from New England Communities, with the curators.
Learn the basics of physically and intellectually arranging a church’s archive through a combination of instruction, demonstration, and hands-on activities.
Explore the historical and theological foundations of Armenian Congregationalism, with a particular focus on how the community has persevered through crisis.
Back by popular demand! 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.
Explore John Hancock’s Congregational roots and learn how he invoked religious traditions and provided land, bells, and building materials to meetinghouses across New England throughout his life.
Explore the remarkable life of Occramer Marycoo, an enslaved African who went on to become a long-standing pillar of Newport's First Congregational Church and one of early America's most important Black leaders.
Celebrate the holiday season by exploring the question: Did seventeenth-century puritans really hate holiday fun, or are they misunderstood?
Celebrate the holiday season by exploring the question: Did seventeenth-century puritans really hate holiday fun, or are they misunderstood?
Hear Project Archivist Anne Woodrum discuss her first six months of work with the Historic Connecticut Collection.
Celebrate the holiday season by exploring the question: Did seventeenth-century puritans really hate holiday fun, or are they misunderstood?
Learn about the research, persistence, and sometimes serendipity involved in locating Revolutionary-era materials as Dr. Phillip Mead, owner of Mead Americana, helps us launch our 2026 Adopt-a-Book program.
Explore the process our New England’s Hidden Histories (NEHH) transcription project uses to make history accessible to all through transcription.
Explore Cotton Mather’s Curiosa Americana letters and understand more about his contributions to natural philosophy.
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