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.
Hear our spring 2025 library interns present on their work to make the CLA’s church history collections more visible and accessible.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Learn about Hannah Mather Crocker’s life in the shadow of her Mather forebears and her work to establish her own place in history as an advocate for women’s intellectual equality.
Discover how a scholarly library of puritan history is built and learn about some of the items up for adoption in the CLA’s 2025 Adopt-a-Book program.
Learn how the Revolutionary War transformed religious life in America through a reassessment of the role of religion in public life on both sides of the Atlantic.
This virtual book talk celebrated the release of Protestant Modernist Pamphlets with author, Dr. Edward B. Davis. In the years surrounding the Scopes trial in...
In this hybrid brown bag program, Kat Kowlayck reflected on the three small collections she processed during her time with the CLA as an archives...
We celebrated the season at 14 Beacon Street with an in-person viewing of materials in the Congregational Library & Archives’ collection related to Christmas with...
Congregational churches could be found in nearly every town across New England in the 1770s. The stories of Patriot ministers who inspired their congregations to...
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