Acquisitions Afternoon 2025: Building a Library of Puritan History with Dr. Frank Bremer
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.
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“The Four-Fold Line of Mathers” +One: Hannah Mather Crocker in Words, Deeds, and the Archival Record
VirtualLearn 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.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.