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SUMMARY:Acquisitions Afternoon 2025: Building a Library of Puritan History with Dr. Frank Bremer
DESCRIPTION:This special virtual event was held in honor of the generosity of collector-donors and the launch of the CLA’s 2025 Adopt-a-Book program. \nThe Congregational Library & Archives’ collection began in 1856 when eight donors contributed items from their personal collections that they believed to be important to understanding and interpreting the Congregational story. 171 years later\, the CLA’s collection numbers over 225\,000 print and manuscript works\, many of which were donated from private collectors. The collection continues to grow each year. \nThis program began with Dr. Francis Bremer discussing the library of British and North American puritan scholarly books and microfilm he recently donated to the Congregational Library & Archives. After a short Q&A session with Dr. Bremer\, staff members wrapped up the discussion by sharing some of their favorite books up for adoption this year. \nSee the items that were up for adoption in our 2025 Adopt-a-Book program. \n  \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Francis J. Bremer has been a student of puritanism in England and New England for over fifty years. Over the course of that time he has taught at various institutions\, retiring from Millersville University of Pennsylvania in 2011. He has held fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge universities in England and at Trinity College in Dublin\, Ireland. He was also a scholar in residence at Queen’s College in Belfast\, United Kingdom. Dr. Bremer served as Editor of the Winthrop Papers for the Massachusetts Historical Society. He has published nineteen books and numerous articles in the field and continues to be active\, currently working on four other projects. He served two terms on the Board of the Congregational Library & Archives.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/acquisitions-afternoon-25
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Public Programs
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SUMMARY:"The Four-Fold Line of Mathers" +One: Hannah Mather Crocker in Words\, Deeds\, and the Archival Record
DESCRIPTION:Our third annual Cotton Mather Lecture was presented by Dr. Alea Henle and sponsored by New England’s Hidden Histories\, a digital project of the Congregational Library & Archives. \nRichard\, Increase\, Cotton\, Samuel\, and Hannah. The last of Samuel Mather’s children\, Hannah\, born in 1752\, lived in the shadow of her Mather forebears. An advocate for women’s intellectual equality\, she established a women-only Masonic-equivalent lodge in post-Revolutionary Boston\, raised a large family\, and authored several treatises published after the death of her husband\, Capt. Joseph Crocker. \nHer many pseudonyms attest to her varied interests and priorities; these include: Prudencia\, Increase Mather Jr. of the Inner Temple\, and H. Mather Crocker. This talk will explore Hannah’s life with particular attention to her investment in her paternal male line’s place in history . . . and her own. \n  \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Alea Henle is a librarian and historian who serves as Head of Access and Borrow and Associate Librarian at Miami University (Ohio). She has presented on historical and library topics for numerous organizations and currently serves as Chair of the American Library Association’s Library History Round Table. The talk draws in part from research for her book\, Rescued from Oblivion: Historical Cultures in the Early United States (UMass Press\, 2020).
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/four-fold-line-mathers
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Cotton Mather Lecture,NEHH,Women's Voices
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SUMMARY:Enslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold History of Sudbury and Wayland\, Massachusetts
DESCRIPTION:Colonial Sudbury\, Massachusetts (modern-day Wayland and Sudbury)\, was designated the quintessential “Puritan Village” by author Sumner Chilton Powell in his 1964 Pulitzer Prize–winning history of the town’s founding in 1638. \nYet this quiet rural village\, like many others in New England\, also had a darker history that is often overlooked. Sudbury’s early puritan inhabitants\, including some of the most prominent citizens in town\, held and sold enslaved Black people throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. \nNever before published\, these stories from preserved records highlight the lives of men\, women\, and children held in bondage\, including a court case involving an enslaved boy repeatedly beaten and left scarred by his master less than thirty years after the town’s founding\, as well as the bill of sale for Phebey\, age two\, to a woman in another town. \nThe accounts of life in colonial Sudbury and its residents’ interactions with nearby towns\, including bills of sale\, marriages\, medical\, and military records\, expand the knowledge of enslavement and its pervasive impact\, yet unquestioned acceptance\, in Sudbury and similar pre-Revolutionary New England villages. \nIn this virtual book talk\, author Jane Sciacca shared the hidden side of suffering in a New England town that she uncovered through her research into local history materials. \n  \nSPEAKER BIO \nJane Sciacca is a retired national park ranger with a degree in history education from Simmons University. Her work as an interpreter for the National Park Service in Concord\, Boston and Cambridge led to her interest in researching enslavement and abolition in her own community of Wayland\, where she has lived with her family for more than fifty years. As chair of the Wayland Historical Commission\, she oversaw the 1981 publication of the first history of Wayland as a separate town\, The Puritan Village Evolves.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/enslavement-puritan-village
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Congregational Story,Diverse Voices
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