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SUMMARY:Congregationalists and the American Revolution: A Virtual Collections Tour
DESCRIPTION: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 Revolution have long been told. Increasingly we are learning more about the experience of the people sitting in the pews and how being part of a Congregational church community shaped their experience of the celebrated ideals–and the sometimes harsh realities–of the revolutionary cause. Printed sermons\, pamphlets\, and histories; manuscript church and association records; and even paintings in the CLA’s collection help tell a story that is both familiar and not. \nIn December 2024 we reprised our popular tour of original materials related to the American Revolution with Executive Director Dr. Kyle Roberts and New England’s Hidden Histories Project Director Dr. Tricia Peone. Recognizing that not everyone can make it to 14 Beacon Street for an in-person viewing\, this tour was hosted on Zoom\, with registration limited to small group of attendees. \nParticipants saw Revolutionary-era treasures from the collections\, heard stories about how Congregationalists experienced the period leading up to\, during\, and immediately following the war\, and reflected on what this pivotal event means 250 years later. \nThis program was part of Revolutionary Stories\, New England’s Hidden Histories’ ongoing series on the American Revolution and the Congregational experience. \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDr. Kyle Roberts was appointed the Executive Director of the Congregational Library & Archives in 2022. He received his BA in American Studies from Williams College and his PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to the CLA\, he was Associate Director of Library & Museum Programming at the American Philosophical Society and Associate Professor of Public History and New Media and Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago. \nA scholar of Atlantic World religion\, print\, and library history\, he is the author of Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City\, 1783-1860 (Chicago\, 2016)\, the co-editor\, with Stephen Schloesser\, of Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits\, Women Religious\, American Experience 1814-2014 (Brill\, 2017) and\, with Mark Towsey\, of Before the Public Library: Reading\, Community\, and Identity in the Atlantic World\, 1650-1850 (Brill\, 2017). \nKyle is an accomplished public historian and digital humanist whose collaborative projects include the Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project\, the Maryland Loyalism Project\, and Dissenting Academies Online: Virtual Library System. In addition to being the consultant for numerous digital and public history projects\, he sits on the executive committees of the American Catholic Historical Association\, the New England Historical Association\, the Urban History Association He is on the editorial and advisory boards for American Catholic Studies\, Early American Studies\, and portal. \nDr. Tricia Peone joined the CLA in 2022 as the Project Director for New England’s Hidden Histories. Prior to joining the CLA\, she was a research scholar at Historic New England for the Recovering New England’s Voices project. She has also previously worked as the public programs director at New Hampshire Humanities\, a university lecturer teaching classes on the Salem witch trials\, early New England\, and public history\, and as a researcher for cultural heritage organizations. She holds a PhD in history from the University of New Hampshire with a specialization in the early modern Atlantic world and history of science.
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SUMMARY:Christmas with the Congregationalists 2024: A Collections Tour
DESCRIPTION: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 Executive Director Dr. Kyle Roberts and Librarian Meaghan Wright. \nChristmas was not always a widely celebrated holiday by Congregationalists. The Massachusetts Bay General Court banned the observance of the holiday in 1659 and ministers\, such as Cotton Mather\, spoke out against yuletide reveling. Congregational practices started to look more familiar by the nineteenth century\, as congregations put on Christmas plays and publishing houses\, like the Pilgrim Press\, printed holiday gift books featuring lovable characters like Winky the Christmas Cat. \nAttendees saw these holiday-themed treasures from the collections first-hand\, learned about (and took home a copy of) a new edition of The Christmas Cat\, shared their own stories about how Congregationalists celebrate Christmas\, and got into the holiday spirit. \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDr. Kyle Roberts was appointed the Executive Director of the Congregational Library & Archives in 2022. He received his BA in American Studies from Williams College and his PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to the CLA\, he was Associate Director of Library & Museum Programming at the American Philosophical Society and Associate Professor of Public History and New Media and Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago. \nA scholar of Atlantic World religion\, print\, and library history\, he is the author of Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City\, 1783-1860 (Chicago\, 2016)\, the co-editor\, with Stephen Schloesser\, of Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits\, Women Religious\, American Experience 1814-2014 (Brill\, 2017) and\, with Mark Towsey\, of Before the Public Library: Reading\, Community\, and Identity in the Atlantic World\, 1650-1850 (Brill\, 2017). \nKyle is an accomplished public historian and digital humanist whose collaborative projects include the Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project\, the Maryland Loyalism Project\, and Dissenting Academies Online: Virtual Library System. In addition to being the consultant for numerous digital and public history projects\, he sits on the executive committees of the American Catholic Historical Association\, the New England Historical Association\, the Urban History Association He is on the editorial and advisory boards for American Catholic Studies\, Early American Studies\, and portal. \nMeaghan Wright earned her Bachelor’s degree in History and English from the University of Durham and leveraged her love of history\, literature\, and organization towards the library arts. She graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Masters in Librarianship with High Honors. Before coming to the CLA\, Meaghan worked as a reference librarian at the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum for over six years\, honing skills in research and reference\, cataloguing\, statistics\, social media\, and exhibitions. She was an active member of both the staff-led Climate + Environment Ideators and DEIA Working Group at PEM\, and remains committed to sustainability and DEIA. She has attended five classes at the Rare Book School on book production and design and served as a subcommittee chair for the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the American Library Association’s Climate Readiness Task Force from 2020-2022. In her capacity as Librarian\, she looks forward to expanding access to the collection through improved description\, data tracking\, and outreach.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/christmas-congregationalists-24
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SUMMARY:Handling History: An Intern's Reflection on the Archival Process – A Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Kat Kowlayck
DESCRIPTION: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 intern. She discussed her biggest takeaways from each step of the archival process and the unique challenges each collection brought to the table. \nAttendees followed along as she explored how she preserved scrapbooks from the Hyde Park\, MA Clarendon Congregational Church Records\, found the history behind the WWI-era Congregationalist in the War Surveys\, and sorted through the Greater Boston Federation of Churches Committee Records. \n\n  \n\nSPEAKER BIO \nKatrina (Kat) Kowalczyk is a Master of Library Science (MLIS) student from Simmons University’s School of Library & Information Science (SLIS). As the CLA’s fall 2024 intern\, she has had the opportunity to work hands-on with archival materials which has been a great complement to her classroom learning.
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SUMMARY:Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in the Scopes Era
DESCRIPTION:This virtual book talk celebrated the release of Protestant Modernist Pamphlets with author\, Dr. Edward B. Davis. \nIn the years surrounding the Scopes trial in 1925\, liberal Protestant scientists\, theologians\, and clergy sought to diminish opposition to evolution and to persuade American Christians to adopt more positive attitudes toward modern science. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and many leading scientists\, the University of Chicago Divinity School published a series of ten pamphlets on science and religion to counter William Jennings Bryan’s efforts to ban evolution in public schools. \nIn Protestant Modernist Pamphlets\, Davis\, who discovered these pamphlets\, reprints them with extensive editorial comments\, annotations\, and introductions to each. Based on unpublished correspondence and internal Divinity School documents\, these introductions narrate the origin of the pamphlets\, as well as their funding sources and how readers reacted to them. Letters from dozens of top scientists at the time reveal their previously unknown views on God and the relationship between science and religion. Viewed together\, the pamphlets and Davis’ critical assessment of their historical importance provide an intriguing perspective on Protestant modernist encounters with science in the early twentieth century. \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Edward “Ted” Davis is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Messiah University and a Fellow of the International Society for Science & Religion. An expert on Robert Boyle and the Scientific Revolution\, he also writes about Christianity and science in America since 1800\, including the history of creationism and a study of modern Jonah stories featured on two BBC radio programs. His latest book\, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion in the Scopes Era (2024)\, reprints ten rare pamphlets on “Science and Religion” from 1922 to 1931\, with three chapters about the Protestant modernist encounter with science. Ted was an advisor for recent exhibits about science and religion at the National Museum of American History and the Museum of the Bible.
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