2023 Events

Good and Mad: Mainline Protestant Churchwomen, 1920-1980 -- A Virtual Discussion with Margaret Bendroth

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

New Light on Cotton Mather: A Virtual Discussion with Reiner Smolinski and Kenneth Minkema

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

How to Store Your Church’s Records: A Virtual Workshop with CLA Archivists Zachary Bodnar and Billy McCarthy

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Graduate Student Workshop in Research Methods: Records of African Americans and Native Americans at the Congregational Library

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Women and Sermons in the Early Modern Anglo-Atlantic World

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Anarchists, Communists, and Women: Congregational Missions to Polish Immigrants in 20th Century America

Friday, March 31, 2023

America’s Public Bible: A Virtual Discussion with Lincoln Mullen

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Fresh Eyes on Old Collections: A Lunch Talk with the Congregational Library’s Spring 2023 Interns

Friday, April 21, 2023

A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Demystifying Archivist Speak: A Virtual Workshop with Zachary Bodnar and Billy McCarthy

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

The Afro-Christian Convention: The Fifth Stream of the United Church of Christ

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

“It Takes a Village”

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

"Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle" – A Juneteenth Virtual Discussion with R.J.M. Blackett

Monday, June 19, 2023

A Conversation with the Sacred Allies

Monday, June 19, 2023

Textile & Text: The Sacred Ally Quilt Ministry at the Congregational Library & Archives

Monday, June 19, 2023 to Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Souls at Sea: Religion, Reform, and the American Sailor

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Voices from the Past: Working with Records from New England’s Hidden Histories

Friday, July 7, 2023

The Archives Edit: A Workshop in Arranging Your Church’s Archive

Friday, July 21, 2023

What’s in a Collection: The Creation and Publication of an Inventory List -- A Virtual Workshop with CLA Archivists Zachary Bodnar and Billy McCarthy

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

The Historical Directory of the Christian Denomination and Afro-Christian Churches

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

The Opportunities and Challenges Facing Religious Archives Today: The View from Boston

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Black Congregational Calvinist Tradition

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Invisible Agents: Witchcraft in Congregational Church Records

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

2023 Open House

Friday, November 3, 2023

One Endeavor Society: A History of Doshisha University's Relationship with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Modern Day Pilgrims: The History of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Boston Tea Party at 250: Congregationalists and the American Revolution

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

God in the Darkness: How Congregationalists in the Connecticut River Valley Faced the Upheaval and Violence of the American Revolution

Thursday, December 7, 2023

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