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Giving Tuesday 2022

Join us on Tuesday, November 29th to support the CLA during Giving Tuesday 2022.

Photo of Karen Clausen-Brown working at the computer in the CLA archives office.

Making Church Records Accessible: Reflections from an Archives Internship

Join us as Dr. Karen Clausen-Brown, a CLA intern, pulls back the curtain on the effort and expertise it takes behind-the-scenes to make a collection publicly available.

Images features the covers to two books from the CLA collections, "The Christmas Cat" and "Around the Yule Log"

Christmas with the Congregationalists

Learn more about how Congregationalists have gotten into the holiday spirit over the past 300 years, illustrated with pieces from the Congregational Library & Archives’ collections.

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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Transcribe an 18th-Century Document