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Plymouth's Pilgrims Curriculum

The Congegational Library & Archives is proud to present our four-part historical introduction and discussion guide, “Plymouth’s Pilgrims: Their Church, Their World, and Ours.” This curriculum and supplementary materials are now available to download, free of charge and right in time for your 2020 planning.

Renovations

The Congregational Library & Archives is currently undergoing renovations! While the library will remain open during renovations, we ask researchers to please provide 48 hours notice regarding which materials you're interested in using.

Making the past relevant to the present

The Congregational Library and Archives strives to enliven a tradition of care for the world's future by preserving and interpreting the stories of the past.

an original manuscript record book and an article about NEHH in the New York Times

Records rescued for the future

We're expanding our New England's Hidden Histories program with some help from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

a group of researchers read manuscript records

Grow Deeper Roots

Learn the story of the Congregational and Christian tradition and why "history matters" in the world today.

a path in the historic Granary burial ground

Find a Congregationalist

Search our database of thousands of Congregational and Christian ministers and missionaries spanning nearly four centuries.

New England's Hidden Histories

Congregational church records are an unparalleled source of information about the religious activities of the early colonists, and about many other aspects of early American life. The Congregational Library and Archives, in partnership with the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale is currently preserving these records and making them available to the public.
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Transcribe an 18th-Century Document

News & Highlights

Digital Projects and the Unique Opportunities for Collaboration

Libraries, museums, galleries, and archives are not just repositories of physical materials anymore. For every book published, a digital copy also exists. For every record printed to paper, another document is stored on a hard drive.

What is “Rare”?

by Sara Trotta, Librarian

Thanksgiving Thoughts

A guest blog by Francis J. Bremer

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the Congregational Church of South Hadley Falls records, 1824-2012, contains many thousands of words.