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SUMMARY:Mary Counce's Boston Massacre: A Sacred Rebellion Virtual Tour
DESCRIPTION:This special virtual tour of the Congregational Library & Archives’ exhibition\, Sacred Rebellion\, with Executive Director Dr. Kyle Roberts and New England’s Hidden Histories Project Director and Sacred Rebellion curator Dr. Tricia Peone marked the 256th anniversary of the Boston Massacre. \nSacred Rebellion highlights the stories of Congregationalists in Revolutionary Massachusetts who believed God favored the patriot cause\, yet debated questions of liberty\, loyalty\, and the legacy of the American Revolution. Mary Counce (1735-1801) wrote about her experiences living in Boston during the American Revolution\, including an original poem about the Boston Massacre. We will explore her little-known writings\, as well as other materials at the CLA\, such as sermons about the Boston Massacre and its aftermath. \nThis interactive tour was hosted on Zoom\, with registration limited to a small group of attendees. Participants saw Revolutionary-era treasures from the collections; heard stories about how Congregationalists experienced the period leading up to\, during\, and immediately following the war; had opportunities to ask questions; and reflected on what this pivotal event means 250 years later. \n  \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. Her scholarship focuses on early New England\, particularly the history of magic and witchcraft\, and her work on these subjects has appeared in journals\, books\, blogs\, and on radio and television. 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.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/mary-counce-sr-tour
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Revolutionary Stories,Sacred Rebellion,Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T130000
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SUMMARY:CSI Goes Digital: The Management and Preservation of Your Church's Digital Files
DESCRIPTION:ACCESS VIDEO TRANSCRIPT + RESOURCES \nIn the not-too-distant past\, church meeting minutes were likely recorded on a pad of paper\, a notebook\, or a bound record book. But today\, meeting minutes and other records are likely to be produced on a computer. But how do we manage these records so that they do not get lost\, corrupted\, or deleted? How do we prepare electronic documents for long-term preservation? And what are some best practices for digital file management in churches and other organizations? \nCLA archivists Zachary Bodnar and Billy McCarthy led this Church Stewardship Initiative workshop focused on the management and preservation of digital files. Zachary and Billy discussed common file types and how to ideally preserve documents. They also shared their advice on how to manage files and folder structures within an organization\, as well as how to integrate digital files into an existing records management program. Finally\, they discussed the best practices for digital preservation with an eye towards what is actually feasible for churches and small organizations. \n  \nSPEAKER BIOS \nZachary Bodnar graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science from Simmons University\, with a concentration in archives management\, in 2018. Prior to his work at the CLA\, Zachary worked at the Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden archive\, the Vassar College Special Collections\, the Harvard Law School Library\, and the Harvard Botany Libraries. Zachary joined the CLA as an Archives Assistant in 2017\, helping to prepare materials for digitization through the New England’s Hidden Histories program. In 2018\, he took on the title of Archivist. His professional interests include metadata collection and management\, digital archiving\, audio/visual preservation\, and archives management. \nBilly McCarthy graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) at Simmons University with a concentration in Archival Management. He started working at the CLA through a graduate internship and was hired full-time as an Archivist in 2018. Billy is the Head of Reader Services\, helping the CLA’s visitors with reference requests and facilitating in-person research. Billy also serves as the collection manager for the archives\, working with CLA’s offsite vendor to protect and maintain the organization’s archival records. Some of his professional interests include increasing access\, collection management\, processing of complex materials\, and facilitating research.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/csi-digital
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Archives,CSI
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SUMMARY:The Oxford Handbook of Puritanism
DESCRIPTION:This virtual program celebrated the new Oxford Handbook of Puritanism\, a collection of over thirty essays by leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic with new research on all aspects of English and North American puritanism. The volume includes such far-ranging topics as the geographies and chronologies of Puritanism\, theology and practice\, politics\, society\, culture\, and modern representations. \nHandbook editors Ann Hughes and Frank Bremer began the virtual program by talking about why puritanism continues to matter culturally and academically. Contributor Rachel Adcock talked about her role on the contributions of women to shaping puritanism\, and Emerson Baker shared his research on witches in puritan culture. \n  \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDr. Ann Hughes is retired from Keele University\, where she worked as Professor of Early Modern History. Her research has focused on the political\, religious\, and cultural implications of the English civil war or Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century. My most recent concerns have been with in print culture and modes of communication\, preaching\, gender\, and the complex engagements of men and women with the parliamentarian war-time state. Publications include Gender and the English Revolution (London\, 2011); Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution (Oxford\, 2004); and a co-edited edition of the works of Gerrard Winstanley (Oxford\, 2009). \nDr. Francis J. Bremer is Professor Emeritus of History at Millersville University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting fellow at Oxford and Cambridge universities in England and Trinity College in Dublin\, Ireland. He is a former Board Member of the Congregational Library & Archives. He has published over two dozen books on puritanism in the Anglo-American world\, including John Winthrop: America’s Forgotten Founding Father\, Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction\, and Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism. A fully revised\, 50th anniversary edition of The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards will be published this year. \nDr. Rachel Adcock is Reader in English Literature at Keele University\, UK. Her research focuses on seventeenth-century women’s writing\, Dissenting writing and culture\, and textual studies\, with a particular interest in the recovery of historically overlooked female writers. She has published widely on women’s contributions to shaping early Puritan theology and practice and her book\, Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture\, 1640-1680 (2015)\, was shortlisted for the Richard L. Greaves Prize in 2016. She is co-Editor of the journal Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture and has served on the International John Bunyan Society committee for ten years. \nDr. Emerson “Tad” Baker is a professor of History at Salem State University and has previously served as vice provost and dean of the graduate school. He is the author or co-author of six books on the history and archaeology of early New England\, including A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience and The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England. Baker has served as consultant and on-camera expert for historical documentaries and TV shows for networks ranging from PBS and TLC to Smithsonian and the History Channel.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/oxford-handbook-puritanism
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Talks,Congregational Story,Women's Voices
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SUMMARY:Women's History Collections Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Tricia Peone\, New England’s Hidden Histories Project Director\, led this tour at 14 Beacon that explored the lives of women in early New England. \nThe Congregational Library & Archives holds important collections of women’s religious writings such as diaries\, letters\, books\, and church records from Massachusetts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This tour explored some highlights from these collections\, including letters written by a woman during the 1775 siege of Boston\, a 250-year-old manuscript music book\, religious testimony from an enslaved woman\, and a diary from the 1740s. \nHeld in the CLA’s historic reading room at 14 Beacon Street\, these monthly collection tours connected residents of Beacon Hill and the greater Boston region with original\, rarely seen materials in the CLA’s collections. \nThis event ran from 12 to 1 pm\, beginning with a short talk by Tricia Peone\, followed by plenty of time for browsing items from our collections and asking questions. \nThanks to the generosity of the Beacon Hill Civic Association\, this program was offered completely free of charge to the public.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/womens-history-collections-tour
LOCATION:Congregational Library & Archives\, 14 Beacon Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tour,Women's Voices
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SUMMARY:The Salem Witch Trials and the Digital Archive
DESCRIPTION:By far\, the records related to the Salem witch trials are the most viewed resource in the New England’s Hidden Histories (NEHH) digital archive. The original manuscripts in the Salem Witchcraft Trials Records\, 1692 collection were digitized as part of the NEHH project with our project partners\, the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. These documents\, which had not previously been digitized and were not available online\, were found in the Phillips Library’s collection in 2017 by members of the CLA and Phillips Library staff. \nThis program featured a conversation with NEHH Project Director Dr. Tricia Peone and Dan Lipcan about digitizing records of the Salem witch trials and their ongoing interest to researchers and the public. \n  \nThe Congregational Library & Archives is commemorating the 20th anniversary of the New England’s Hidden Histories (NEHH) project with this program series and the digital exhibition NEHH@20: Re-Examining Stories from New England Communities. Find out more on our website. \n  \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDan Lipcan is the Ann C. Pingree Director of the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. He leads a talented staff charged with stewarding the library’s extensive and varied collection\, and has curated or co-curated several exhibitions at PEM. Previously\, Dan was Associate Museum Librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a member of the Grolier Club\, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts\, and the Art Libraries Society of North America. \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. Her scholarship focuses on early New England\, particularly the history of magic and witchcraft\, and her work on these subjects has appeared in journals\, books\, blogs\, and on radio and television. 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.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/swt-digital-archive
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:NEHH,NEHH@20
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