Events

This in-person workshop was led by New England’s Hidden Histories Project Director Dr. Tricia Peone and CLA Archivist Billy McCarthy. Participants learned how to use...

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectively silenced—unable to officially align themselves with...

Not all church records are historic. Church stewardship also encompasses the records your church is producing today. This might include vital records, meeting minutes, financial...

The founders of the Congregational Library in Boston in 1853 drew inspiration not only from the creation of historical societies in the United States, but...

The Congregational Library & Archives hosted an in-person workshop on finding and using sources for African American history at 14 Beacon Street in Boston from...

The history of print culture in Boston and the history of Congregationalism are deeply intertwined. Like a famous university across the river, the Congregational Library...

The Congregational Library & Archives’ collection started with eight donors who contributed items from their personal collections that they saw as shaping an understanding and...

History has judged Cotton Mather harshly when it comes to women, perhaps with good reason. His first published sermon was preached on the execution day...

Before the advent of modern public libraries in the United States and United Kingdom in the mid-nineteenth century, readers availed themselves of an array of...

Once your church records have been properly stored and inventoried, you are ready to take the next step and find a way to share those...

When the Congregational Library Association formed in 1853, its members aimed to collect and preserve the Congregational story in print, a testimony to the denomination’s...

Congregational Library & Archives members celebrated the season at 14 Beacon Street for an in-person collections viewing of materials related to Christmas with CLA Executive...

American Congregational Association - Boston Athenaeum Research Fellow Christopher Walton presented his research into how Congregationalists in the Connecticut River Valley navigated the American Revolution...

This virtual conversation about the Boston Tea Party featured Dr. Robert Allison and New England’s Hidden Histories Project Director Dr. Tricia Peone. Their discussion explored...

This discussion featured Rev. Dr. Ron Hamilton and Rev. Alwyn York, editors of a new two volume edition of Modern Day Pilgrims: The History of...

New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Research Fellow Jocelyn Rice presented her research into the build environment of Doshisha University and its relationship to the...

Our 2023 Open House celebrated the launch of the virtual exhibition, Founding 56: The Congregational Library’s Original Collection, which explores the history of the Congregational...

A haunted house, an unusual illness, the intervention of a minister–each could lead to an accusation of witchcraft in early New England. Today, people typically...

This program offered an important discussion of Phillis Wheatley Peters as a theological thinker within the Black Calvinist tradition with Steven Harris, Rev. Dr. Stephen...

Zachary Bodnar (Congregational Library & Archives), Thomas Lester (Archdiocese of Boston Archive & Library), and Jessica Suarez (Harvard Divinity School) represent Boston-area institutions with significant...