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SUMMARY:Why Study Library History?
DESCRIPTION: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 subscription\, commercial\, private\, religious\, and other libraries for their edification and enjoyment. Rooted in regional communities\, these libraries became emblems of local pride and exceptionalism\, stimulating and promoting local culture\, politics\, civic infrastructure\, and educational provision. Libraries fostered communities of readers whose shared reading connected them to each other and to millions of other readers across the western world. \nIn this talk\, four leading historians of English\, Scottish\, and American libraries revealed the diverse ways that library history can illuminate different facets of the past. All are co-investigators on the recent major AHRC-funded grant entitled Libraries\, Reading Communities\, and Cultural Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic\, which launched a major new web resource in early 2024 that features fully searchable membership lists\, catalogues\, and borrowing records from more than eighty libraries across the Anglophone Atlantic. The talk featured a demonstration of this powerful new web resource. \nThis program was part of the CLA’s Founding 56 Lecture Series\, which accompanied our 2023 digital exhibition\, Founding 56: The Congregational Library’s Original Collection. \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDr. Sophie Jones is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Liverpool. Her research focuses upon the socio-cultural development of the North American colonies\, in particular the origins of political loyalism and the activities of loyalists during the American Revolution. Her most recent article explores variations of loyalism in the colony of New York\, while her first monograph project considers the role of print culture and urban spaces in shaping political sentiment. \nDr. Laura Miller is Professor of English at the University of West Georgia. She studies the intersections of literature\, media\, and science during the eighteenth century. Her first book\, Reading Popular Newtonianism: Print\, the Principia\, and the Dissemination of Newtonian Science\, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2018. Dr. Miller has held fellowships at the Houghton Library at Harvard University\, the Library Company of Philadelphia\, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on a book which focuses on the connections between readership\, scientific experimentation\, and conceptions of early American government as experimental\, as well as other projects related to library history\, science\, the digital humanities\, and gender. \nDr. Matthew Sangster is Professor of Romantic Studies\, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. In the field of Library Studies\, he has published on the eighteenth-century records of St Andrews University Library in the Review of English Studies and led the Carnegie-funded ‘Enlightenment Readers in the Scottish Universities’ project (focusing on Glasgow). He is a co-investigator of the ‘Books and Borrowing 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers’ project out of the University of Stirling. His other research interests include the Royal Literary Fund\, Fantasy literature\, Romantic-period London\, literary institutions and the media environment of the 1820s. His first monograph\, Living as an Author in the Romantic Period\, was published by Palgrave in January 2021. \nDr. Norbert Schürer is Professor of English at California State University Long Beach. His research focuses on literature and book history in the long eighteenth century (c. 1660-1832). More specifically\, he works on eighteenth-century women writers\, circulating libraries\, and the Anglo-Indian encounter. He has published the anthology British Encounters with India (with Tim Keirn\, 2011)\, the collection Charlotte Lennox: Correspondence and Miscellaneous Documents (2012)\, the cultural guide Berlin (2014)\, and the local history study Boom and Bust: Miner Smith and His 1920s California Bungalow Mansions (2015).
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SUMMARY:Cotton Mather and the Women He Loved
DESCRIPTION: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 of Elizabeth Emerson\, convicted of murdering her illegitimate newborn twins. And Mather’s writings are littered with numerous assertions reinforcing the deeply entrenched puritan notion of the subordination of women. Then\, of course\, there was the debacle of the witchcraft trials. For these reasons\, when people think of Mather today\, the word most likely to come to mind is “complicated.” \nBut who was Mather at home\, without the wig? Who was he as a husband and father? From the reputation that has come down to us\, one would assume Cotton Mather to have been a tyrant over his wife and a strong disciplinarian who ruled his children with a rod. Certainly\, few would suspect that between wives\, he was shamelessly sought after as a highly eligible widower. \nOn Valentine’s Day 2024\, we looked at Mather’s relationships with the women in his life: his three wives\, his daughters\, his sisters\, and his life-long pursuit of the one woman he strove to understand perhaps more than any other\, that prototype of all women\, Eve. \nThe Congregational Library & Archives’ 2024 Cotton Mather Lecture was presented by New England’s Hidden Histories’. \n  \nSPEAKER BIO \nHelen Gelinas is Director of Transcription for New England’s Hidden Histories. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Hartt School in Connecticut and a BA in English and an MA in American Studies from the University of Tübingen\, Germany. In Tübingen\, she was selected by The Mather Project to be a research and editorial assistant for Volume 5 of Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana. Following the presentation and publication of her essay\, “Regaining Paradise: Cotton Mather’s Biblia Americana and the Daughters of Eve\,” she earned a Research Fellowship to the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale Divinity School. She is currently a PhD candidate in Early American Studies at the University of Heidelberg\, completing her dissertation entitled\, “’The Spirit and the Bride’: Female Parity\, Prophecy\, and the Power of the Pen in the Works of Cotton Mather.”
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SUMMARY:Acquisitions Afternoon: Collecting Congregationalism and the Founding 56 Adopt-a-Book Program
DESCRIPTION:The Congregational Library & Archives’ collection started with eight donors who contributed items from their personal collections that they saw as shaping an understanding and interpreting the Congregational story. 170 years later\, the CLA’s collection numbers over 225\,000 print and manuscript works\, many of which were donated from private collectors. \nIn this program\, Rev. Dr. Davida Foy Crabtree shared her journey as a book collector and her decision to contribute her collection of Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell’s works and her own personal papers to the Congregational Library & Archives. \nThis program was part of our 2024 Adopt-a-Book Program. \nSPEAKER BIO \nRev. Dr. Davida Foy Crabtree has served for over fifty years in the ministries of the United Church of Christ. Raised in a tiny rural church in northwest Connecticut\, she went to Andover Newton and on to parish and non-parish ministries\, including 23 years in Conference Ministry. Her family taught her to learn from the past\, so in her early years when she encountered those who thought women shouldn’t be ordained\, she began to collect the works of Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell and other women of the suffrage era. That collection and her own archives are now held by the Congregational Library & Archives.
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SUMMARY:What a Library Means to a Church: Congregational Philanthropy & Print Culture
DESCRIPTION: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 & Archives is an institution that began with a gift of books. While Harvard honors a single donor with the name of their institution\, the Congregational Library & Archives owes its beginnings to the largesse of several prominent Bostonians. At a time when both philanthropy and which books are included in which libraries mattered\, it can be instructive to consider how the forces of print culture and philanthropy fostered a Boston institution. \nThe fact that two-thirds of the books in the original Congregational Library were printed in Boston likely does not come as a surprise. Not only was Boston a center for Puritan (and later Congregational) spiritual and intellectual activity\, but also the city’s printing shops dominated the information landscape of British North America over the first 150 years after the establishment of the first press. Learn more about the early history of printing in Boston with a leading scholar of early Boston printing\, Dr. Jonathan Beecher Field. \nThis program was part of the CLA’s Founding 56 Lecture Series\, which accompanied our 2023 digital exhibition\, Founding 56: The Congregational Library’s Original Collection. \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Jonathan Beecher Field is Associate Professor of American Literature at Clemson University. He was born in New England and educated in the Midwest. His first book\, Errands into the Metropolis (UPNE\, 2009)\, concerned strategies of dissent employed by religious dissidents in seventeenth-century New England. His second book\, Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation (Minnesota\, 2019)\, considers how simulacra of deliberative processes allow politicians\, corporations\, and university to contain and silence dissent. He is currently working on a book project considering material bases of settler innocence.
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