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2024 Annual Appeal

Please consider supporting the Congregational Library & Archives' work to preserve the 400+ year Congregational story.

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Christmas with the Congregationalists

CLA Members: Join us on December 14th from 5-7 pm EST an evening of festive fun at 14 Beacon.

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2024-2025 Fellowship Applications Open

Applications for our 2024-2025 research fellowships cycle are now open.

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God in the Darkness

Join us for a lunchtime talk at 14 Beacon on Thursday, December 7th at 12 pm EST with ACA-BA Research Fellow Christopher Walton.

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Founding 56

Explore our 2023 digital exhibition, featuring the Congregational Library & Archives' original collection of 56 works.

We Do Give Up Ourselves to One Another

Explore our digital exhibit and consider the early Congregational question: What is our responsibility to one another?

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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Upcoming Events

Members Event: Christmas with the Congregationalists

Thursday, December 14, 2023

News & Highlights

In Memory: Dr. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs (1946-2023)

Obituary by Dr. Francis J. Bremer

The recent passing of Jeremy Bangs is a loss to all who knew him. He was a true Renaissance man--an artist, a musician, and a scholar of wide-ranging interests.

CLA Welcomes Four New Board Members

The Congregational Library & Archives is pleased to welcome four new members to the Board of Directors this month.

The CLA's archivists, Zachary Bodnar and Billy McCarthy, recently hosted a virtual program on "Demystifying Archivist Speak," to help church archivists learn some of the essential terminology associated with archival practice.

Sara Georgini, Historian and Series Editor, The Papers of John Adams